An Appeal for a Creaturely Attitude to Animals in Vasily Rozanov’s Writing
An Appeal for a Creaturely Attitude to Animals in Vasily Rozanov’s Writing

Summary/Abstract: The work of Vasily Rozanov offers a relevant case study of our changing relation to natural-cultural contact zones with animals. Rozanov used a comparativeapproach to human-animal connections to change the societal attitude to thephysical body and erase boundaries between human and animal corporeality.I focus on his narratives that promote a creaturely attitude to animals in the context of societal problems. The issues he addresses have special relevance to thecurrent pandemic realia. I argue that Rozanov used both ethico-religious andsecular arguments, as well as logic and emotion as part of his strategy to appealto wider audiences. The hybrid genre of his narratives was a new form of literature that employed multiple rhetorical devices in creating creaturely poetics.

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