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humanimalia-10901	Salzani, Carlo	Theriotopologies: Review of Lorella Bosco and Micaela Latini, eds., Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800–2000	2022	8	.pdf	application/pdf	2770	85	39	In their introduction to this new collection, Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800–2000, editors Lorella Bosco and Micaela Lat- ini adopt the theoretical grid recently proposed by German literary scholar Roland Borgards (a theoretical grid that also explicitly struc- tures most chapters of the book), according to which there are es- sentially two roles that can be assigned to animals in literature: they can act either as “semiotic” animals — that is, they are endowed with a semiotic function, they symbolize or represent something else, usually some human concern — or as “diegetic” animals — animals who have a place as living beings in the diegesis, that is in the nar- rative representation.4 The wager of Literary Animal Studies is pre- cisely to discover the diegetic animal in fictional representations and under the multiple layers of the cultural imagination of differ- ent epochs. Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800–2000: Exploring the Great Divide.	cache/humanimalia-10901.pdf	txt/humanimalia-10901.txt