Birds in medieval English poetry : metaphors, realities, transformations /

Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world. By attending to the ways in which birds were actuall...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Warren, Michael J. (Auteur)
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer 2018.
Reeks:Nature and environment in the Middle Ages.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1ntjc6
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Introduction
  • Native foreigners: Migrating seabirds and the pelagic soul in The Seafarer
  • Avian pedagogies: Wondering with birds in the exeter book riddles
  • A bird's worth: Mis-representing owls in The Owl and the Nighingale
  • 'Kek Kek': Translating birds in The Paliament of Fowls
  • Bird's form: Enabling desire and identities in Confession Amantis
  • Epilogue