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An Ecocritical Reading of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf (1963)

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Abstract

Using the Ecocritical theory as a framework, this study highlights the subtle Ecocritical issues in Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, and aims at pointing out how Mowat draws heavily on humanizing wolves and joins the recent Ecocritical concerns over the ways in which humans should understand and deal with them.

DOI 10.11648/j.ajad.20170202.14
Published in American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017)
Page(s) 60-68
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Keywords

Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf, Anthropomorphism, The Wolf, Ecocriticism, Animal Rights’ Movement

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