Eating Girls

Deleuze and Guattari’s Becoming-Animal and the Romantic Sublime in William Blake’s Lyca Poems

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  • Peter Heymans Author

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https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.10056

Abstract

This article argues that Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming-animal is aesthetically as well as structurally related to the discourse of the sublime. It investigates the species politics of both concepts and illustrates their ecocritical potential with an analysis of William Blake’s Lyca poems, “The Little Girl Lost” and “The Little Girl Found,” both published in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794).

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Author Biography

  • Peter Heymans

    Peter Heymans is a Research Affiliate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. In 2010 he finished his doctoral dissertation on the role of the animal in the Romantic discourses of the beautiful and sublime. His research on British Romanticism generally combines insights from the fields of animal studies, ecocriticism, and aesthetic theory, but also makes frequent forays into literature and science studies, gender theory and poststructuralist philosophy. His first book Animality in British Romanticism: The Aesthetics of Species will be published by Routledge in May 2012.

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Published

2011-09-17

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011)

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Articles

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How to Cite

Heymans, Peter. 2011. “Eating Girls: Deleuze and Guattari’s Becoming-Animal and the Romantic Sublime in William Blake’s Lyca Poems”. Humanimalia 3 (1): 1-30. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.10056.