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    Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language by Kári Driscoll

    Published 2015-07-01
    “…This essay takes a pivotal scene in Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried, in which the eponymous hero attempts to communicate with a forest bird by imitating its song, as a point of departure for an exploration of Enlightenment theories of the origin of language, specifically those of Rousseau and Herder. …”
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