Birds in Medieval English Poetry - Metaphors, Realities, Transformations

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.

List of contents

Introduction
Native Foreigners: Migrating Seabirds and the Pelagic Soul in The Seafarer
Avian Pedagogies: Wondering with Birds in the Exeter Book Riddles
A Bird's Worth: Mis-Representing Owls in The Owl and the Nightingale
'Kek Kek': Translating Birds in The Parliament of Fowls
Birds' Form: Enabling Desire and Identities in Confessio Amantis
Epilogue
Glossary: Old and Middle English bird names
Bibliography

About the author

MICHAEL J. WARREN is currently Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway University, where he gained his PhD.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J. Warren, Michael J. (Royalty Account) Warren
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781843845911
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-591-1
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 156 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 424 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w illus
• Series: Nature and Environment in the; Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies