Animal Perception and Literary Language

Donald Wesling is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at UC San Diego, USA. He has published on Wordsworth, John Muir, Edward Dorn, and Bakhtin; on rhyme, meter, and avant-garde prosody; and on how voice and emotion get into writing.

• Part I: Imbroglios of Humans and Nonhumans.- Part II: Perception, Cognition, Writing.- Part III: Attributes of Animalist Thinking.- Part IV: Animalist Thinking From Lucretius to Temple Grandin.- Part V: Perception and Expectation in Literature.