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Subject(s)

• Birds in literature [Browse]
• Human-animal relationships [Browse]
• Nature (Aesthetics) [Browse]

Editor

• DiMarco, Danette [Browse]
• Ruppert, Timothy, 1969- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Essays [Browse]
• Literary criticism [Browse]

Series

Ecocritical theory and practice [More in this series]

Summary note

"Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture challenges species centrism through essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9781666901818 (hardcover)
• 1666901814 (hardcover)

LCCN

2022001941

OCLC

1292564675

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