Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 416 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
080322057X
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0803226160
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1282423894
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9780803220577
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9780803226166
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9781282423893
Inhalt:
A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature writers in Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind's representations--and attitudes toward--other species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary tr
Inhalt:
Birds of a feather: avians, indigenes, animal rights, and ecology -- Wandering voices: the avian other from Cowper to Wordsworth -- Blithe spirit and immortal bird: the avian other from Wordsworth to Clare -- The eagle and the crow: avian returns in Native American literature -- A beatitude of birds: contemporary Native poetry -- Epilogue: the avian speaks back
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gannon, Thomas C Skylark meets meadowlark Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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