Mocking Mimesis: Robinson's Parrot and the Rise of the Modern Novel

Mocking Mimesis: Robinson's Parrot and the Rise of the Modern Novel

Paper given at the International Conference of the Munich Doctoral Program for Literature and the Arts MIMESIS 2016
42 Minuten

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This paper examines the blurring of boundaries between animal and
human mimesis in Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe" and argues that
it is the seemingly mechanic voice of the parrot that enables
Robinson to become the subject of the modern novel.

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