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The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

Autor Michael Malay
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iun 2018
This book argues that there are deep connections between ‘poetic’ thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others. It explores this proposition in relation to four poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Les Murray. Through a series of close readings, and by paying close attention to issues of sound, rhythm, simile, metaphor, and image, it explores how poetry cultivates a special openness towards animal others.
The thinking behind this book is inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals. In particular, it takes up that book’s suggestion that poetry invites us to relate to animals in an open-ended and sympathetic manner. Poets, according to Elizabeth Costello, the book’s protagonist, ‘return the living, electric being to language’, and, doing so, compel us to open our hearts towards animals and the claims they make upon us. There are special affinities, for her, between the music of poetry and the recognition of others.
But what might it mean to say that poets to return life to language? And why might this have any bearing on our relationship with animals? Beyond offering many suggestive starting points, Elizabeth Costello says very little about the nature of poetry’s special relationship with the animal; one aim of this study, then, is to ask of what this relationship consists, not least by examining the various ways poets have bodied forth animals in language.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319706658
ISBN-10: 3319706659
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: XI, 256 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1 Why Look at Animals?: Poetry and the Difficulty of Reality.-2 The Homely and the Wild in Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop.-3 Rhythmic Contact: Ted Hughes and Animal Life.-4 Presence and the Mystery of Embodiment: Les Murray’s Translations from the Natural World.-5 Poetry’s Electric Being 
Works Cited 
Index 

Recenzii

“Malay’s use of metaphor and simile is often a subtle and intelligent response to the challenge of maintaining loyalty to poetics, of not reducing it to ‘two-mindedness’, or worse. These scrupulous close readings sit alongside a wide range of references—from Henry David Thoreau to Max Weber—that draw them into a wider debate.” (Danny O’Connor, The Review of English Studies, May 29, 2019)

Notă biografică

Michael Malay is Lecturer in English Literature and Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol, UK.

Caracteristici

Argues that there is a special relationship between poetry and the animal, one which cultivates respect, care and wonder for their otherness, but which also reveals – and deepens – our sense of common animality and even kinship with them Places animals at the forefront of its literary analysis of modern and contemporary poetry Offers original readings of animals in poetry, provides new and refreshing insights into familiar poets