Rhetoric of Animality

This guide provides a comprehensive collection of academic resources exploring the multifaceted discourse surrounding animals in society.

Key Journals

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Anthrozoös The key premise of Anthrozoös is to address the characteristics and consequences of interactions and relationships between people and non-human animals across areas as varied as anthropology, ethology, medicine, psychology, veterinary medicine and zoology.
Critical Discourse Studies "... an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. Its primary aim is to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change."
Philosophy and Rhetoric ... dedicated to publication of high-quality articles involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric.
Rhetorica "... includes articles, book reviews and bibliographies that examine the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and their relationship with poetics, philosophy, religion and law."
Rhetoric Review Publishes in all areas of rhetoric and writing and provides a professional forum for its readers to consider and discuss current topics and issues. (ulrichsweb)
Rhetoric Society Quarterly "... the official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America, features original articles on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy." (InformaWorld)
Society and Animals Publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the social sciences and the humanities.

JSTOR [JSTOR] This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed journals, as well as books and primary sources published by various publishers and presses. It contains material across a range of disciplines from the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

MLA International Bibliography
"... provides a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics." (MLA website)
Google Scholar
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Project MUSE Premium This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed journals published by university presses and scholarly societies. It contains material across a range of disciplines from the social sciences and humanities.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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