In The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II, Dilek Bulut Sarikaya explores medieval Anatolia, where humans' connectivity to nonhuman animals was not yet disrupted by the capitalist economic systems and demonstrates how ancient societies treated nonhuman animals as self-conscious, spiritual individuals, capable of feeling pain with highly advanced forms of intentionality.
| ISBN: | 9781666928853 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 2023 |
| Author: | Dilek Bulut Sarikaya |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic an imprint of Lexington Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 133 pages |
| Series: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Animals and society Nature and the natural world: general interest |