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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">This paper will look at problems of anthropomorphism in animal studies and literary representation. Texts to be discussed include Peter Goldsworthy’s </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Wish</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">,
Barbara Gowdy’s </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The White Bone</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> and Elisabeth Bailey’s </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">.</span></span></div>
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<div>Helen Tiffin is a renowned literary critic. She is co-author of the <i>The Empire Writes Back: Postcolonial Literatures</i><i>, Theory and Practice</i> (Routledge) and most recently co-author of <i>Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment </i>(Routledge).
She is currently <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Adjunct Professor of English and Animal studies at the University of New England.</span></div>
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