Year of Real and Literary Birds

A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life.

List of contents

Introduction: "Of Mere Being"
Winter
Chapter 1: Regarding Birds
Chapter 2: From a Snowshoer's Notebook
Spring
Chapter 3: Song Sparrow in a Pandemic
Chapter 4: In All the Garden Round
Chapter 5: Swainson's Thrush
Summer
Chapter 6: Habitat Edges
Chapter 7: Dawn Chorus
Chapter 8: House Wren
Chapter 9: Clark's Nutcracker and the Whitebark Pine
Chapter 10: Already, Before Long
Fall
Chapter 11: Home for a Grouse
Chapter 12: Sky Atlas

About the author

Laura Godfrey is Associate Professor of English at North Idaho College. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, and has published academic and personal essays in journals such as Western American Literature, The Hemingway Review, and Arizona Quarterly and in edited collections including Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. Her first book, Hemingway's Geographies (Palgrave), appeared in 2016, and her second edited collection, Hemingway in the Digital Age (Kent State UP), was published in 2019.

Summary

A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Godfrey, Godfrey Laura
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032873640
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287364-0
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; NATURE / Animals / Birds, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, NATURE / Birdwatching Guides, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, FICTION / Animals, Zoology: birds (ornithology), The environment, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest