FASTITOCALON Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern Vol. VI · 2016

FANTASTIC ANIMALS, ANIMALS IN THE FANTASTIC

Issue 1 & 2

Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen

Editors’ in Chief Preface 1

Oliver Bidlo, Thomas Honegger and Frank Weinreich

Fantastic Animals, Animals in the Fantastic: Introduction 3

ARTICLES

Friedhelm Schneidewind (Hemsbach, Germany)

Talking Animals as Literary Protagonists 5

Anja Höing (Osnabrück, Germany)

Negotiating Anthropomorphism in Talking Animal Stories— An Ecocritical Approach to Fantastic Animals 21

Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (Des Moines, USA)

The Rabbit Who Saw It All Coming: Western Concepts of Shamanism in Watership Down 33

Jenn Grunigen (Eugene, USA)

‘Queering the Fox’: A Reading of Four Works of Vulpine Mythpunk 43

Smadar Shiffman (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Kafka’s Fantastic Animals 59

Kristine Larsen (New Britain, USA)

“Mutant, Monster, Freak”: The Mythological World of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Series 65

Amber J. Rose (Madison, USA)

ok þar er mér úlfsins ván, er ek eyrum sá. And I expect a wolf, when I see a wolf’s ears 79

Łukasz Neubauer (Koszalin, Poland)

The Eagle is not Coming: Some Remarks on the Absence of the News-Bearing Eagle in Peter Jackson’s Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings 99

Victoria Holtz Wodzak (La Crosse, USA)

On Pilgrimage Among Beasts: Narnia, and the Beasts Who Teach 109

Fanfan Chen (Shou Feng, Taiwan)

The Animal Imaginary of Fantastic Time and Narrative in Inuyasha 123

Daniel Lau and Sarah Schlüter (Berlin and Münster, Germany)

Anzû—Mesopotamia’s mythological thunderbird 139

Tziona Grossmark (Upper Galilee, Israel)

I saw a frog the size of the Fort of Hagronia (BT Baba Batra 73b)— Or How Big is an Elephant? 155

Timo Lothmann (Aachen, Germany)

The ravaging and hoard-guarding antagonist: A cognitive approach to dragon conceptualisations in Beowulf and selected writings of J.R.R. Tolkien 169

ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS 185

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