Skylark meets meadowlark : reimagining the bird in British romantic and contemporary Native American literature

Label

Skylark meets meadowlark : reimagining the bird in British romantic and contemporary Native American literature

Title remainder

reimagining the bird in British romantic and contemporary Native American literature

Statement of responsibility

Thomas C. Gannon

Creator

• Gannon, Thomas C

Subject

• American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• American literature -- Indian authors | History and criticism
• Birds in literature

Language

eng

Summary

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 tr

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography