Animal Liberation and Giving up the Meat Diet in the Novel La penultima magia by Tiziano Scarpa

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2024.13.10

Keywords:

Tiziano Scarpa, human-animal relationship, animal industrial farms, animal liberation, veganism

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present how Tiziano Scarpa promotes the ideas of vegetarianism and veganism as well as interspecies dialogue in his novel La penultima magia. The author proposes an ecocritical reading that will allow to track down the textual values of the human-animal relationship. In the first part the author considers the legitimacy of raising animals for food. The second part focuses on the idea of veganism.

 

Author Biography

Karolina Kopańska, University of Gdansk

Karolina Kopańska – MA, researcher in Italian and Romance studies, PhD candidate in literary studies at the Doctoral School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk; author of articles and chapters in monographs on Italian literature. One of her recent publications is La crisi delle relazioni amorose nell’opera di Giovanni Agnoloni (in: L’art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches littéraires. Le 50e anniversaire des études romanes
à l’Université de Łódź, ed. Magdalena Koźluk, Anita Staroń, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022, pp. 325–336). E-mail: karo.kopanska@gmail.com.

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2024-04-11

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Kopańska, K. (2024). Animal Liberation and Giving up the Meat Diet in the Novel La penultima magia by Tiziano Scarpa. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1 (13), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2024.13.10

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No. 1 (13) (2024): Transfigurations of Veganism

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