ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the significance of place and space in relation to, first, conventional conceptualisations of 'literature' in literary scholarship, and, second, organisations of literary texts on the level of semantics. It also discusses the 'lively cartography' interpretational method 'following the animal' as a multifaceted, multilevel tool to employ in the process of producing 'more-than-anthropocentric' meaning in literary texts. The chapter investigates the potential of introducing spatial perspectives at the intersection of literary scholarship and the field of human-animal studies, human animal science. The animal species involved in literary transformations from human to animal tend to be the ones that have traditionally been the most dangerous to humans and their livestock, but stories depicting werewolf figures also result in threats to individual animals. The possibility of animal representations signifying actual animals is effectively erased, and the nonhuman animal rendered meaningless or invisible in modern Western literary scholarship.
