Mocking Mimesis: Robinson's Parrot and the Rise of the Modern Novel - a podcast by Simone Niehoff

This paper examines the blurring of boundaries between animal and human mimesis in Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe" and argues that it is the seemingly mechanic voice of the parrot that enables Robinson to become the subject of the modern novel.

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