Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture

Danette DiMarco; Timothy Ruppert

doi:10.5771/9781666901825

Summary

Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination closes the gap between ornithological and humanities knowledge. This book contains fifteen innovative essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies in order to include birds in current conversations within the field of animal studies. This collection challenges species centrism, advances a biodiverse ontology, and embraces bird-centered topics as diverse as gaming, comic strips, window collisions, conservation literature, youth birding, mourning theory, and the “Birds Aren’t Real” movement.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0181-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0182-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 262
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
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1. 1. First Watch: Birdwatching Writing No access
  2. Second Watch: Reading Augury No access
  3. Third Watch: Awake to Dream No access
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4. 1. The Fledgling Comics Artist No access
  2. The Magic of Slumberland No access
  3. Of Birds and Other Flying Things No access
  4. The Royal Pain and Word Balloons No access
  5. Of Airships and Magical Realism No access
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2. 1. The Nature Fakers: Emotions, Instinct, and Reason in the Animal Kingdom No access
  2. Fred Bodsworth: Instinct and Emotion in Curlews No access
  3. Kira Buxton: Evolution and Adaptation in Crows No access
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3. 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS No access
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4. 1. Birds and Atwood’s Activism No access
  2. For the Birds: A Blueprint for Angel Catbird No access
  3. Angel Catbird: An Iteration of Bird Conservation No access
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3. 1. Mourning Theory and the Blue Humanities No access
  2. Numbering Uncertainty: Deborah Cramer’s The Narrow Edge No access
  3. Kindred Isles of Mortality: Carl Safina’s Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross No access
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2. 1. Studying Conspiracy Theory No access
  2. Surveillance Fears No access
  3. Threats to Birds, Not Birds as Threats No access
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3. 1. From Ludonarrative Dissonance to Ludothematic Resonance No access
  2. 1. Planarity No access
    2. Uniformity No access
    3. Ordinality No access
    4. Spatiality No access
    5. Texturality No access
  3. CONCLUSION No access
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Index No access Pages 249 - 258
1. About the Editors No access
2. About the Contributors No access