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Price:$50 Skylark Meets Meadowlark: Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Book Description: Publication Date: November 1, 2009 A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature writers in Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind’s representations—and attitudes toward—other species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary treatment succeeds from an ecological or animal-rights perspective.   Such depictions, Gannon argues, reveal much about underlying cultural and historical relationships with the Other—whether other species or other peoples. He elucidates the changing interconnections between birds and humans in British Romanticism from Cowper to Clare, with particular attention to Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Keats. Gannon then considers how birds are imagined by Native writers, including early Lakota authors and contemporary poets such as Linda Hogan and Joy Harjo. Ultimately he shows how the sensitive and far-reaching connections with nature forged by Native American writers encourage a more holistic reimagining of humankind’s relationship to other animals.

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Product Details: Hardcover: 436 pages Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (November 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 080322057X ISBN-13: 978-0803220577 Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.4 x 9.1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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