Skylark meets meadowlark : reimagining the bird in British romantic and contemporary Native American literature / Thomas C. Gannon.

By:

Gannon, Thomas C

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780803226166
0803226160
9786612423895
6612423897

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Skylark meets meadowlark.DDC classification:

821/.709145 22

LOC classification:

PR590 .G36 2009eb

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Contents:

Birds of a feather: avians, indigenes, animal rights, and ecology -- Wandering voices: the avian other from Cowper to Wordsworth -- Blithe spirit and immortal bird: the avian other from Wordsworth to Clare -- The eagle and the crow: avian returns in Native American literature -- A beatitude of birds: contemporary Native poetry -- Epilogue: the avian speaks back.

Summary: A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature writers in Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind's representations--and attitudes toward--other species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary tr.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature writers in Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind's representations--and attitudes toward--other species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary tr.