The scientific ape: the evolution of the animal fable after Darwin

科学猿：达尔文之后动物寓言的演变

• 批准号: DP0987893
• 负责人: Prof Christopher Danta
• 金额: $ 16.97万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0987893
• 关键词: scientific; ape; evolution; animal; fable

This project will contribute to national and international debates over the understanding of human nature, the human propensity for violence towards other beings and the possibility of mutually supportive relations with our natural environment. By demonstrating literature's capacity to intervene meaningfully into conceptual debates about the literary representation of animals, it will enhance Australia's international scholarly profile in the emerging field of animal studies. It will also contribute to the international renown of Australian scholarship in traditional literary studies by producing the first theoretically informed reassessment of the literary genre of the fable.

这个项目将促进国内和国际上关于理解人性、人类对其他生物的暴力倾向以及与我们的自然环境相互支持关系的可能性的辩论。通过展示文学有意义地介入关于动物文学表现的概念性辩论的能力，它将提高澳大利亚在新兴动物研究领域的国际学术形象。它还将通过对寓言文学类型进行第一次理论上知情的重新评估，为澳大利亚在传统文学研究方面的学术声誉做出贡献。