Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture - Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination

Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture challenges species centrism through essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies.

List of contents

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 Bir

About the author

Danette DiMarco is professor of English at Slippery Rock University.Timothy Ruppert is assistant professor of English at Slippery Rock University.Danette DiMarco is professor of English at Slippery Rock University.Declan Lloyd is lecturer and teaches across the English Literature, History and Sociology departments at Lancaster University. Timothy Ruppert is assistant professor of English at Slippery Rock University.

Product details

• Authors: Danette Ruppert Dimarco
• Assisted by: Danette DiMarco (Editor), DiMarco Danette (Editor), Timothy Ruppert (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781666901818
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-181-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, natural history, Folklore, myths & legends, Literature: history & criticism, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)