TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
AU  - Marie Bouchet
PY  - 2015
CY  - Bruxelles, Belgium
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1376-3202
SN  - 9783035264777
TI  - Insects in Literature and the Arts
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0352-6477-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053866
N2  - This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint.   The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating upon the alien qualities of insects – a radical otherness that has provoked admiration and fear, or contributed to the debates over humans’ superiority over animals, especially during the evolutionary theory controversy, or in today’s ecological debates. Insects not only helped shape new discourses on nature and on the natural world, but their literary and artistic representations also reveal how humans relate to their environment.
KW  - entomology, admiration, fear, evolutionary theory, artistic viewpoint
LA  - English
ER  -