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.…mehr
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.
Danette DiMarco is professor of English at Slippery Rock University. Timothy Ruppert is assistant professor of English at Slippery Rock University.
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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 Bird Narratives Danette DiMarco SECTION 3 - Entangled Worlds Chapter 9: The Peregrine: At the Intersection of Ecocriticism and New Nature Writing Debarati Bandyopadhyay Chapter 10: Helen Macdonald, T. H. White, and Hawks: H is [also] for History Louis J. Boyle Chapter 11: Across So Wide a Sea: Humans, Seabirds, and the Kinship of Mortality Keri Stevenson Chapter 12: Collisions in Contemporary American Poetry 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 Laura McGrath Chapter 14: Birds Aren't Real: Narrative and Aesthetic Irony in For-Profit Conspiracy Lauren Shoemaker Chapter 15: Laying Eggs: Ludothematic Resonance and the Birds of Wingspan Christopher Moore
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 Bird Narratives Danette DiMarco SECTION 3 - Entangled Worlds Chapter 9: The Peregrine: At the Intersection of Ecocriticism and New Nature Writing Debarati Bandyopadhyay Chapter 10: Helen Macdonald, T. H. White, and Hawks: H is [also] for History Louis J. Boyle Chapter 11: Across So Wide a Sea: Humans, Seabirds, and the Kinship of Mortality Keri Stevenson Chapter 12: Collisions in Contemporary American Poetry 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 Laura McGrath Chapter 14: Birds Aren't Real: Narrative and Aesthetic Irony in For-Profit Conspiracy Lauren Shoemaker Chapter 15: Laying Eggs: Ludothematic Resonance and the Birds of Wingspan Christopher Moore
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