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Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination
Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination
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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.
Table of Contents
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 Bir
Product details
Published | Mar 18 2022 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 272 |
ISBN | 9781666901818 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Illustrations | 11 b/w photos; |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Series | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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