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This contribution tries to investigate the question of how to frame, from the point of view of the affiliation models, the relationship with pets. In this regard, We Think the World of You reveals as an exemplary text. The novel in question will be considered as a privileged place where the experience of relationship with animals is assessed, while programs and forms of an interspecies living together take form.
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Following the invitation that Paolo Fabbri addressed to the audience of the conference Zoosemiotica 2.0 Forme e Politiche dell’animalità , held in Palermo, 1–2 December 2016
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The first film, We Think the World of You, 1988, directed by Colin Gregg with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. The second, My Dog Tulip, is a 2009 animated feature directed by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, with dubbing of actors known as Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini.
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It’s the she-puppy Queenie renamed Evie in We Think the World of You and Tulip in My Dog Tulip.
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Reference here goes to the known experiment of the Pavlovian conditioning (Pavlov and Anrep 1927).
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Mangiapane, F. (2018). Frank and Johnny with Evie: Ontological Shifts in a J.R. Ackerley Novel. In: Marrone, G., Mangano, D. (eds) Semiotics of Animals in Culture. Biosemiotics, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72992-3_14
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