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Figurations of interspecies harmony: When nonhuman sidekicks take over. The bakhtinian carnivalesque and the upturned hierarchy in Sir Gadabout by Martyn Beardsley (1992)

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Wilde, Julia, 2026, "Figurations of interspecies harmony: When nonhuman sidekicks take over. The bakhtinian carnivalesque and the upturned hierarchy in Sir Gadabout by Martyn Beardsley (1992)", https://doi.org/10.58132/63MXA2, Dane Badawcze UW, V1

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Figurations of interspecies harmony: When Nonhuman Sidekicks Take Over: The Bakhtinian Carnivalesque and the Upturned Hierarchy in Sir Gadabout by Martyn Beardsley (1992).

Dataset v.1.0 for the research project:

"Figurations of interspecies harmony in literature, film and other cultural texts of the English-speaking sphere, from the mid-19th to the 21st centuries", funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (grant no. UMO-2020/38/E/HS2/00130).

Dataset consists of:

  • a README.txt file with data description;
  • a dataset knights and animals in children's literature from 1980.ods file with research data.

Research data is a table with list of selected books and collections of short stories for children featuring knights. The table illustrates the frequency of animals appearing in these works, as well as their species and their significance to the narrative. It also takes into consideration the approximate age range of the intended audience. All of the texts taken into consideration were written originally in English from the 1980s onwards.

The table includes exclusively books for young audience, no older that 12 years old.

It excludes poetry and individual short stories.

The list is NOT exhaustive.

This dataset is associated with the following papers: 

Wilde, J. H. (2025) “When Nonhuman Sidekicks Take Over: The Bakhtinian Carnivalesque and the Upturned Hierarchy in Sir Gadabout by Martyn Beardsley (1992)”, Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 51. https://czasopisma.filologia.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/c/article/view/2746 (in print).

Subject
Arts and Humanities
Keyword

children's literature, carnivalesque, cat, knight, anthropomorphism

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