Parrot Poll
Animal Mimesis in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6148775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland Borgards (Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanimalia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-8645 • E-ISSN: 2151-8645 |
| Publisher | Humanimalia, Utrecht University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52537/humanimalia.9451 |
| OpenAlex | W4247812425 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The paper focuses on the famous scene in which Poll the parrot talks to Robinson Crusoe. It gives a close reading, revealing the ambivalence of violence and care in the relation between Robinson and Poll. It expands this ambivalence to a postcolonial approach, and it investigates — with and beyond Derrida — the poetological implications of the parrot's faculty of mimesis
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Law · Psychology · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |