Poetry and Animals - Blurring the Boundaries With the Human

Zusatztext A beautiful reading! where the importance of animals for poets of the past passing through the most recent ones is remarked in all its magnificence. Informationen zum Autor Onno Oerlemans is professor of literature at Hamilton College. He is the author of Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature (2002). Klappentext Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Through careful readings of dozens of poems! Oerlemans demonstrates how poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide. Zusammenfassung Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Through careful readings of dozens of poems, Oerlemans demonstrates how poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Animal in Allegory: From Chaucer to Gray 2. Poems of the Animal 3. Poetry as Field Guide: The Species Poem 4. The Individual Animal in Poetry 5. Of Hybridity and the Hybrid Coda Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Onno Oerlemans, Oerlemans Onno
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780231159548
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15954-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; NATURE / Animals / General, English, NATURE / Animal Rights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Animals & society, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Animals and society, Literary studies: poetry and poets