Poetry and animals blurring the boundaries with the human /
Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of anim...
| Main Author: | Oerlemans, Onno, 1961- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2018.
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The animal in allegory: from Chaucer to Gray
- Poems of the animal
- Poetry as field guide: the species poem
- The individual animal in poetry
- Of hybridity and the hybrid
- Coda.