Anthropomorphism


Animal Farm
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
The Wind in the Willows
Redwall (Redwall, #1)
Mossflower (Redwall, #2)
Charlotte’s Web
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)
Mattimeo (Redwall, #3)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
Stuart Little
The Tale of Despereaux
Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)
Mariel of Redwall (Redwall, #4)
Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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Stars as Characters in Fiction
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Animal Detectives
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Personified Concepts and Things
37 books — 6 voters

Rumer Godden
In me you exist,' says the house. ...more
Rumer Godden, Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time

In a post-Enlightenment 'scientific' context, to challenge the axiom of human exceptionalism is to indulge in anthropomorphism, because while we might think we see manifestations of personhood in animal others, what we are really doing is attributing human characteristics to animals. This is because only humans can be persons. ...more
Samantha Hurn, Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions

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