Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0183-2 (ISBN)
Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination closes the gap between ornithological and humanities knowledge. This book contains fifteen innovative essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies in order to include birds in current conversations within the field of animal studies. This collection challenges species centrism, advances a biodiverse ontology, and embraces bird-centered topics as diverse as gaming, comic strips, window collisions, conservation literature, youth birding, mourning theory, and the “Birds Aren’t Real” movement.
Danette DiMarco is professor of English at Slippery Rock University. Timothy Ruppert is assistant professor of English at Slippery Rock University.
Introduction: The Continuous Line Between Birds and Humans in Animal Studies Today
Danette DiMarco and Timothy Ruppert
SECTION 1 - The Avian-ness of Aesthetics
Chapter 1: Birdwatching and Wordwatching: The Avian Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
Jemma Deer
Chapter 2
Birds as Character, Motif, Allusion, and Symbol in Meir Shalev’s A Pigeon and a Boy
Laura Major
Chapter 3: “With An Aviary Inside Its Head”: Surrealist Sensibilities and Avian Ontologies in the Work of J. G. Ballard and Ted Hughes
Declan Lloyd
Chapter 4: The Optimism of Flight: Magical Realism in Little Nemo in Slumberland
Mark O’Connor
SECTION 2 - Writing About/Like Birds
Chapter 5: The Fate of Birds in Anatole France’s Penguin Island
Timothy Ruppert
Chapter 6: Of Curlews and Crows: Representations of Avian Cognition in North American Animal Stories
Jennifer Schell
Chapter 7: What is it like to write (like) a bird?: Rethinking Literary Practice to Support Avian Subjectivity
Joshua Lobb
Chapter 8: Margaret Atwood’s Bird Narratives
Danette DiMarco
SECTION 3 - Entangled Worlds
Chapter 9: The Peregrine: At the Intersection of Ecocriticism and New Nature Writing
Debarati Bandyopadhyay
Chapter 10: Helen Macdonald, T. H. White, and Hawks: H is [also] for History
Louis J. Boyle
Chapter 11: Across So Wide a Sea: Humans, Seabirds, and the Kinship of Mortality
Keri Stevenson
Chapter 12: Collisions in Contemporary American Poetry
Calista McRae
SECTION 4 - Consumers Consuming Birds
Chapter 13: “Their Little Brethren of the Air”: Rhetoric of Youth Birding in the United States, 1890s-Present
Laura McGrath
Chapter 14: Birds Aren’t Real: Narrative and Aesthetic Irony in For-Profit Conspiracy
Lauren Shoemaker
Chapter 15: Laying Eggs: Ludothematic Resonance and the Birds of Wingspan
Christopher Moore
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Co-Autor | Debarati Bandyopadhyay, Louis J. Boyle, Jemma Deer |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 435 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-0183-0 / 1666901830 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-0183-2 / 9781666901832 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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