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Mocking Bird Technologies : The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes /

Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in literature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic birds, and the way mimicry of any kind involves technologies that extend across as well as beyond languages and species. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Holm, Melanie D. (Editor ), GoGwilt, Christopher Lloyd (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.