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Interpreting nightingales : gender, class, and histories /
The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek my...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield :
Academic Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references ([247]-260. |
| ISBN: | 1847141854 9781847141859 1281295469 9781281295460 9786611295462 6611295461 |