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Poetry and animals : blurring the boundaries with the human /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oerlemans, Onno, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University, [2018]
Subjects:
Animals in literature.
Exempla in literature.
Anthropomorphism in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animal welfare in literature.
Animals > Symbolic aspects.
Poetry, Modern > History and criticism.
Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism.
Poetry, Medieval.
Poetry, Modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.