Ailén Cruz

From Griffin to Axolotl

Reimagining the Bestiary in Contemporary Hispanic Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

From Griffin to Axolotl examines the resurgence of the medieval bestiary genre in contemporary Hispanic literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780228026310
• ISBN-10: 0228026318
• Artikelnr.: 73802978

Autorenporträt

Ailén Cruz is a post-doctoral researcher at Mount Allison University and writes the bilingual Substack Prone to Hyperbole.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures ix
Introduction 3
1 Origins of the Bestiary Genre 10
2 The Bestiary’s Migration to the Americas 21
3 Animals Beyond Morality 67
4 Appropriating the Bestiary 90
5 Blurring the Confines of the Genre 115
6 Usurping Beast Territory 146
Conclusion 173
Appendix: Bestiary Corpus 181
Notes 185
References 195
Index 207