Description: This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering works from Eastern and Western cultures, the book examines the deep symbolic ...
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"This book makes a powerful contribution to Animal studies, to interdisciplinary studies of literature and film, and to Postcolonial studies, because it isn't just about horses. It's a cross-cultural study of epistemology and ethics pointing toward a better way to live in the world." --Laura Otis, Emory University
"Educated equestrians will treasure this book. Horses and humans have evolved together for at least 56 million years, until, in our modern era, we depend upon each other for sustenance and survival. This unique relationship has fostered exceptional literature, art, film and poetry, all of which strive to express the essence of the modern horse-human partnership. Well worth reading." --Wendy Williams, author of The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion "By demonstrating the centrality of what he aptly calls "the horse paradigm" in literature and film over several centuries and continents, LaRubia-Prado invites us through brilliant, sensitive and scholarly analyses to discover, or rediscover, canonical as well as lesser-known works from a new perspective. His timely arguments, drawn from poetic imagination and philosophy, encourage the prospect of a balanced relationship between humans and the natural world, including the other sentient beings with whom we share this planet." --Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame