Avian aesthetics in literature and culture : birds and humans in popular imagination / edited by Danette DiMarco and Timothy Ruppert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DiMarco, Danette, editor.

Ruppert, Timothy, 1969- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds in literature.

Human-animal relationships.

Nature (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Section 1: The Avian-ness of Aesthetics

Birdwatching and Wordwatching: The Avian Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway / Jemma Deer

Birds as Character, Motif, Allusion, and Symbol in Meir Shalev's A Pigeon and a Boy / Laura Major

"With An Aviary Inside Its Head": Surrealist Sensibilities and Avian Ontologies in the Work of J. G. Ballard and Ted Hughes / Declan Lloyd

The Optimism of Flight: Magical Realism in Little Nemo in Slumberland / Mark O'Connor

Section 2: Writing About/Like Birds

The Fate of Birds in Anatole France's Penguin Island / Timothy Ruppert

Of Curlews and Crows: Representations of Avian Cognition in North American Animal Stories / Jennifer Schell

What is it like to write (like) a bird?: Rethinking Literary Practice to Support Avian Subjectivity / Joshua Lobb

Margaret Atwood's Bird Narratives / Danette DiMarco

Section 3: Entangled Worlds

The Peregrine: At the Intersection of Ecocriticism and New Nature Writing / Debarati Bandyopadhyay

Helen Macdonald, T. H. White, and Hawks: H is [also] for History / Louis J. Boyle

Across So Wide a Sea: Humans, Seabirds, and the Kinship of Mortality / Keri Stevenson

Collisions in Contemporary American Poetry / Calista McRae

Section 4: Consumers Consuming Birds

"Their Little Brethren of the Air": Rhetoric of Youth Birding in the United States, 1890s-Present / Laura McGrath

Birds Aren't Real: Narrative and Aesthetic Irony in For-Profit Conspiracy / Lauren Shoemaker

Laying Eggs: Ludothematic Resonance and the Birds of Wingspan / Christopher Moore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 31, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Avian aesthetics in literature and culture

ISBN:

9781666901825

1666901822

Publisher Number:

40031052280

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.