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Mocking bird technologies : the poetics of parroting, mimicry, and other starling tropes /
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 s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.