Ornithologies of desire : ecocritical essays, avian poetics, and Don McKay
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Ornithologies of desire : ecocritical essays, avian poetics, and Don McKay
(Environmental humanities)
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018
- : pbk
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注記
Originally published: 2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-276) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry invites a critical humility in the face of environmental crises and evolutionary history. The poetry and poetics of Don McKay provide Ornithologies of Desire with its primary subject matter, which is predicated on attention to ornithological knowledge and avian metaphors. This focus on birds enables a consideration of more broadly ecological relations and concerns, since an awareness of birds in their habitats insists on awareness of plants, insects, mammals, rocks, and all else that constitutes place. The book's chapters are organized according to: apparatus (that is, science as ecocritical tool), flight, and song.
Reading McKay's work alongside ecology and ornithology, through flight and birdsong, both challenges assumptions regarding humans' place in the earth system and celebrates the sheer virtuosity of lyric poetry rich with associative as well as scientific details. The resulting chapters, interchapter, and concordance of birds that appear in McKay's poetry encourage amateurs and specialists, birdwatchers and poetry readers, to reconsider birds in English literature on the page and in the field.
目次
Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Note on the Cover
Beginnings: An Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter One: Nesting
Chapter Two: Naming
Ecotone One: Field Marks
PART TWO
Chapter Three: Homologies
Chapter Four: Flight
Chapter Five: Gravity
Ecotone Two: Field Guides
PART THREE
Chapter Six: Notes
Chapter Seven: Birdsong
Chapter Eight: Listening
Ecotone Three: Field Notes
PART FOUR
Chapter Nine: Birder-Poet
Chapter Ten: Science
Ecotone Four: Field Trips
Ending: Ravens
Appendix: Bird Concordance
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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