Avian aesthetics in literature and culture : birds and humans in the popular imagination /: birds and humans in the popular imagination. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Danette DiMarco and Timothy Ruppert.
• Editors: DiMarco, Danette; Ruppert, Timothy, 1969-
• Contents: Introduction: The Continuous Line Between Birds and Humans in Animal Studies Today <span style="font-style:italic;">Danette DiMarco and Timothy Ruppert SECTION 1 - The Avian-ness of Aesthetics Chapter 1: Birdwatching and Wordwatching: The Avian Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Mrs Dalloway <span style="font-style:italic;">Jemma Deer Chapter 2 Birds as Character, Motif, Allusion, and Symbol in Meir Shalev’s <span style="font-style:italic;">A Pigeon and a Boy <span style="font-style:italic;">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 <span style="font-style:italic;">Declan Lloyd Chapter 4 : The Optimism of Flight: Magical Realism in <span style="font-style:italic;">Little Nemo in Slumberland <span style="font-style:italic;">Mark O’Connor SECTION 2 - Writing About/Like Birds Chapter 5: The Fate of Birds in Anatole France’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Penguin Island <span style="font-style:italic;">Timothy Ruppert Chapter 6: Of Curlews and Crows: Representations of Avian Cognition in North American Animal Stories <span style="font-style:italic;">Jennifer Schell Chapter 7: What is it like to write (like) a bird?: Rethinking Literary Practice to Support Avian Subjectivity <span style="font-style:italic;">Joshua Lobb Chapter 8: Margaret Atwood’s Bird Narratives <span style="font-style:italic;">Danette DiMarco SECTION 3 - Entangled Worlds Chapter 9: <span style="font-style:italic;">The Peregrine : At the Intersection of Ecocriticism and New Nature Writing <span style="font-style:italic;">Debarati Bandyopadhyay Chapter 10: Helen Macdonald, T. H. White, and Hawks: H is [also] for <span style="font-style:italic;">History <span style="font-style:italic;">Louis J. Boyle Chapter 11: Across So Wide a Sea: Humans, Seabirds, and the Kinship of Mortality <span style="font-style:italic;">Keri Stevenson Chapter 12: Collisions in Contemporary American Poetry <span style="font-style:italic;">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 <span style="font-style:italic;">Laura McGrath Chapter 14: Birds Aren’t Real: Narrative and Aesthetic Irony in For-Profit Conspiracy <span style="font-style:italic;">Lauren Shoemaker Chapter 15: Laying Eggs: Ludothematic Resonance and the Birds of <span style="font-style:italic;">Wingspan <span style="font-style:italic;">Christopher Moore
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 809.933628; Birds in literature; Human-animal relationships; Nature (Aesthetics)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781666901825
• Related ISBNs: 9781666901818
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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