Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language
This essay takes a pivotal scene in Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried, in which the eponymous hero attempts to communicate with a forest bird by imitating its song, as a point of departure for an exploration of Enlightenment theories of the origin of language, specifically those of Rousseau and Herde...
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| Language: | deu |
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Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Recherches Germaniques |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rg/879 |