Skylark meets meadowlark : reimagining the bird in British romantic and contemporary native American literature / Thomas C. Gannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gannon, Thomas C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Birds in literature.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature writers in Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind's representations-and attitudes toward-other species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary tr

Contents:

Birds of a feather: avians, indigenes, animal rights, and ecology

Wandering voices: the avian other from Cowper to Wordsworth

Blithe spirit and immortal bird: the avian other from Wordsworth to Clare

The eagle and the crow: avian returns in Native American literature

A beatitude of birds: contemporary Native poetry

Epilogue: the avian speaks back.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612423895

9781282423893

1282423894

9780803226166

0803226160

OCLC:

593259859