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humanimalia-10118	Copeland, Marion	An Animal-Centric Literature: Review of Philip Armstrong, What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity	2009	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1861	59	37	With readings such as Armstrong provides here and a glass half full instead of half empty, readers will discover in our literatures, past and present and future, narratives that depict nonhuman animal selves and subjects as accurately and convincingly as they depict human animal characters. Although usually characterized as animal novels, these texts follow some of the earliest texts Armstrong considers in presenting nonhuman characters either as under human control, without agency or intention, or, in the case of Martel, 73 Marion W. Copeland – An Animal-Centric Literature used solely as metaphors in what Armstrong reveals to be “a rhapsody to the power of the (touristic, all-consuming, privileged, globalized, Western) human spirit” (179).	cache/humanimalia-10118.pdf	txt/humanimalia-10118.txt