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Voices of the Headland - Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey

English · Hardback

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Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from the continent's end of the American West, Jeffers' poetic eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and other birds of prey symbolize the compelling presence and voice of nature, a pantheistic universe of beauty and splendor, death and destruction. It is the perilous bird of prey which calls forth the very essence and life-force of Jeffers himself, winging its way through his expansive body of narrative and lyrical verse, a poetry fundamentally anti-social in its vision and primitive in its basic, instinctual surge. Voices of the Headland examines this distinctive imagery from many critical viewpoints.

List of contents

List of Illustrations - Peter Quigley: Foreword - Author's Preface - Credits and Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction: Solitary Hunters - Critical Viewpoints - Words of Prey - Of Flight & Sky - The Hawks of Jeffers Country - A Natural History of Hawks - The Hawk's Dream - The King and His Hawks - Beasts in Peril - Merciless Cries - The Hawk Poet of the Tower - Bibliography - Index.

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Alan J. Malnar, Associate Professor of Humanities and Communications at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, teaches courses in writing, literature, film, and cultural studies. He has published articles in both scholarly and serial periodicals, and has received many national leadership awards from the Associated Collegiate Press for his work with Horizons newspaper. Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey is his first full-length publication.

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Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers.

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"<> is a delight. Like Jeffers' hawk and sense of nature it is grounded, informed, and it is poetic and passionate. Alan Malnar has gone deep into the world of hawks and into Jeffers' use of this image and explores where these meet as 'words of prey.' His book is a wild read." Peter Quigley, ex-president, Robinson Jeffers Association

Product details

Authors Alan Malnar, Alan J. Malnar
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2017
 
EAN 9781433140235
ISBN 978-1-4331-4023-5
No. of pages 170
Dimensions 150 mm x 15 mm x 225 mm
Weight 380 g
Illustrations 29 Abb.
Series Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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