IMC 2008: Sessions

Session 1116: An Animal as an Image of Human Being

Wednesday 9 July 2008, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń
Organiser:	Krzysztof Obremski, Instytut Literatury Polskiej, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń
Moderator/Chair:	Bartosz Awianowicz, Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń
Paper 1116-a	The Battle and the Hunt: Comparisons and Persuasion (Language: English) Krzysztof Obremski, Instytut Literatury Polskiej, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric
Paper 1116-b	An Animal as an Image of Human Being in the Most Popular School Fables in the Middle Ages (in the West and Byzantium) (Language: English) Bartosz Awianowicz, Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Education, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1116-c	Animal or Human?: The Lack of an Image - the Contribution to the Story of Monstrous (Language: English) Pawel Bohuszewicz, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	In ancient and medieval anthropological thought an animal is one of the most important determinant which allows us to specify a human identity. This thought is determined in various genre forms: -an animalistic fable – a genre very popular in medieval eductation (both Latin and Greek) - introduced animals which symbolized human characteristics to moralize and educate youth, -according to the tradition of the Homeric epic tradition in a chronicle – the Chronicae by Anonymous author colled Gallus battles are compared with the wild animal hunt, -in a romance the hog-man as an object of description seems to evade conceptual oppositions.