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Journal: Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

Szymon Szymonowic’s Bucolic Bestiary. Between Nature and Culture

Krystyna Krawiec-Złotkowska

Published: 21-12-2021 | Abstract | pp. 1-23

The article presents and discusses phenomena related to fauna appearing in Szymon Szymonowic’s bucolic poetry. The subject of the analysis is the works published in the collection Sielanki i pozostałe wiersze polskie [Idylls and Other Polish Poems]. The bestiary from the poems of this Renaissance author, the creator of the Polish idyll, is analyzed in the context of biblical and mythical tradition. Attention is also paid to the Old-Polish and European cultural heritage, conventional
and convention-breaking approaches, and affiliations with Polish-Russian ethnography. In the article, natural and cultural dimensions of animal and human relations are also explored. The exemplification of the animals found in Szymonowic’s idylls has also made it possible to determine the functions they play in the world created in those works.

2021-12-21



Journal: Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

On the Logic of Animal Umwelten: The Animal Subjective Present, or Zoosemiotics of Choice and Learning

Kalevi Kull , Dmitry Kozhevnikov , Magdalena Kozhevnikova

Published: 18-06-2023 | Abstract | pp. 1-20

Our aim in this study is to demonstrate a mutual relationship between the classes of signs, mechanisms of learning, and types of the umwelt. This is necessary in order to describe and understand the animal ways of meaning-making in the context of various forms of semiosis. We assume that semiosis only occurs in the present, in the subjective Now. An account of the linkage of vegetative, animal, social, and cultural umwelten with corresponding classes of signs and mechanisms of learning (imprinting, conditioning, imitating, conventioning) is provided. We also formulate two general rules of semiotic development that characterise the ontogeny of the umwelt.

2023-06-18