Description |
1 online resource (317 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction. Parrots and starlings / Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm -- 1. "O friends, there are no friends" : the aesthetics of avian sympathy in Defoe and Sterne / Melanie D. Holm -- 2. The avian challenge of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana; or, the pigeon effect / Shari Goldberg -- 3. Smart's professors : birdsong and rhetorical agency in Jubilate Agno / Fraser Easton -- 4. A volatile unity : Coleridge, starling murmurations, and romantic form / Gavin Sourgen -- 5. Words are for the birds : "non- reasoning creatures capable of speech" in the writings of Schreber and Poe / Joe Conway -- 6. Splitting the lyric lark; or, Dickinson's music box / Isabel A. Moore -- 7. The starling's whistle : autophilology and the order of Osip Mandel'shtam's birds / Holt Vincent Meyer -- 8. Colonial and postcolonial birds of game, games of bird / Fawzia Mustafa -- 9. Of mimicry, birds, and words : the technology of starling song in European, American, and Indonesian poetry / Christopher GoGwilt -- 10. Yogini and mynah bird : on the poetics and politics of transspecies meditation / Madeleine Brainerd and Kaori Kitao -- Afterword. A starling manifesto for mocking bird technologies / Christopher GoGwilt -- Coda. Tornada, in starling form / Sarah Kay |
Summary |
This volume examines the poetics of bird mimicry: the way birds mimic humans, and the way humans mimic birds. Drawing from 18th-century studies, romantic studies, American studies, 20th-century studies, and postcolonial studies, the collection offers new models for combining comparative and global studies of literature and culture |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Starlings.
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Mockingbirds.
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Mimicry (Biology)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Birds.
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NATURE -- Birdwatching Guides.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology.
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Mimicry (Biology)
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Mockingbirds
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Starlings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
GoGwilt, Christopher Lloyd.
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Holm, Melanie D., 1977-
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ISBN |
9780823278510 |
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0823278514 |
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9780823280520 |
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0823280527 |
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