Skylark Meets Meadowlark: Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Literature
AaNative rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary...
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AaNative 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 writersain Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankindOCOs representationsOCoand attitudes towardOCoother species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary treatment succeeds from an ecological or animal-rights perspective.
- Format:Unknown Binding
- Pages:437 pages
- Publication:2014
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
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- ISBN10:0803226160
- ISBN13:9780803226166
- kindle Asin:0803226160
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