In the “Animal Reading” lecture this week, we had a backdrop of changing forest scenery while attempting werewolfish reading; today is under the sign of the dog, wolf, and werewolf.
References are to the Penguin Classics editions (Marie trans. Burgess, Montaigne trans. Screech), as this course is taught through English and using translations—with occasional reference, today for example, to the original—in readily-available cheap paperback, that can be obtained second-hand for little, as a compromise between keeping student costs down and retaining content and quality. And having complete books—not dismembered extracts—out of ecosystemic respect.
From the syllabus:
WEEKS 3-4
- TOPIC:
Animals communicating with humans and reading them, anthropomorphic animals, and metamorphosing humans - READINGS THIS FORTNIGHT:
- Marie de France: Bisclavret, Yonec
- Montaigne: I. 8, 11, 14, 36, 48 – II. 11, 27, 30
- (+ II. 12 excerpts)