Birds in literature /

Although they are as commonplace as our backyards, birds remain wild, unpossessed by humans, living "beside us, but alone," as Matthew Arnold observes and as Leonard Lutwack explores in this study of the depiction of birds in literature. The very attributes that make birds so familiar - th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lutwack, Leonard, 1917-2008
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1994.
Subjects:
Birds in literature.
Birds > Folklore.
Oiseaux dans la littérature.
Oiseaux > Folklore.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Birds
Birds in literature
Vogels.
Bellettrie.
Folklore
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bird song: the nightingale
  • From fact to symbol
  • Birds and the poet's vocation
  • Birds and gods: the ancient legacy
  • Bird signs and bird souls
  • The modern revival of bird-gods
  • Pet birds
  • Birds trapped and hunted
  • Killing the sacred bird
  • Birds and the erotic
  • Literature and the future of birds.

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