Emotions and Non-Human Animals in Contemporary Literature From the “Francophonies of the North” and Beyond | Metacritic Journal | janv. 2026

« Emotions and Non-Human Animals in Contemporary Literature From the “Francophonies of the North” and Beyond », Diana Mistreanu, Andrei Lazar (dir.), Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Cluj (Roumanie) Rats laugh when tickled – a fact established by Jaak Panksepp (1943-2017), one of the founders of affective neuroscience, the proponent, since the late 1990s, of the seven core emotional systems existent across the mammalian brain, namely SEEKING, CARE, PLAY, LUST, FEAR, RAG...