Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination
Redaktion: DiMarco, Danette; Ruppert, Timothy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666901825
• Artikelnr.: 63574519

Autorenporträt

Danette DiMarco is professor of English at Slippery Rock University. Timothy Ruppert is assistant professor of English at Slippery Rock University.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Bir