One obstacle to making an article like this readable outside of fandom, is the way it lumps together all kinds of stuff using only country to classify it.
This is surely a well worn subject, but it could use much more defined classification. The article's readability suffers without it.
It's confusing to lump together self published stuff right from fandom, with 1930's and 40's classic lit. "Furry" wasn't a term until the 80's, right?
Anything before that, or parallel but separate could be labeled "anthropomorphic" (which you could loosely break down even more by the way anthropomorphism is used and why.) Ancient world lit, common popular fables, funny animal comics, and talking cat detective novels can be separate (except when they put genres together.)
Anything that influenced the first generation of furries, but before there was a fandom, might be called proto-furry, or something... Watership Down, Fritz the Cat.
One obstacle to making an article like this readable outside of fandom, is the way it lumps together all kinds of stuff using only country to classify it.
This is surely a well worn subject, but it could use much more defined classification. The article's readability suffers without it.
It's confusing to lump together self published stuff right from fandom, with 1930's and 40's classic lit. "Furry" wasn't a term until the 80's, right?
Anything before that, or parallel but separate could be labeled "anthropomorphic" (which you could loosely break down even more by the way anthropomorphism is used and why.) Ancient world lit, common popular fables, funny animal comics, and talking cat detective novels can be separate (except when they put genres together.)
Anything that influenced the first generation of furries, but before there was a fandom, might be called proto-furry, or something... Watership Down, Fritz the Cat.
Fandom-specific stuff is its own category.
I think I've seen this topic on here before...