Journal of the Imaginary and Fantastic 2009        home   editor Vol. 1.  No. 6.  :  Talking Animals, Humanimals. Tess Cosslett. Child's Place in Nature : Talking Animals in Victorian Children's Fiction. Dave Bryant. Why are Monster-Movie Zombies so Horrifying and Talking Animals so Fascinating?. Jed R. Brubaker. wants moar : Visual Media's Use of Text in LOLcats and Silent Film. David Lavery. Aesop After Darwin : The Radical Anthropomorphism of 'The Far Side'. Jose Rodolfo da Silva. The Cat Who Reads the Map : Posthumanism and Animality in Harry Potter. Maria Lassen-Seger. Adventures into Otherness : Child Metamorphs in Late Twentieth-Century Literature. From the archives. 'Human Animals' by Frank Hamel (1915). (19Mb PDF facsimile). Multimedia : MIT. Complete footage of the MIT ROLFCon 2008 panel on LOLcats. Multimedia : British Library. Talking Birds. Profile of Anne Milne. What Animals Have To Say. Book Review. Review of 'Talking Animals : Medieval Latin Beast Poetry'.   ABOUT: The Journal of the Imaginary and Fantastic is a free full-text 'overlay' ejournal, making a creative intervention into academic publishing in the arts & humanities. Think of it as a cross between a remix album, and 'fantasy football' for academics. All copyrights remain with the originators of linked works. Citations should reference the linked sources. ARCHIVE OF BACK-ISSUES : Vol.1 No.1  (2009). 'The Werewolf'. The first issue, on the theme of the werewolf in visual culture.   Full-text. Vol.1. No.2  (2009). 'Miyazaki'. The second issue, on the theme of the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki.   Full-text. Vol.1. No.3  (2009). 'Cloud Studies'. The third issue, on the art, culture and history of looking at the clouds.   Full-text. Vol.1 No.4 (2009) 'Maps' The fourth issue on maps, mapping, and the imagination.  Full-text. Vol.1. No.5  (2009). 'Mirror...'   The fifth issue, on mirrors and screens.   Full-text. Vol.1 No.6 (2009) 'Talking Animals' The sixth issue on talking animals, and humanimals. Full-text. Vol.2. No.1  (2010). Forthcoming. The seventh issue. Vol.2 No.2 (2010). Forthcoming The eighth issue. Vol.2 No.3 (2010). forthcoming The ninth issue. The Journal of the Imaginary and Fantastic.   A JURN Project.