Mocking Bird Technologies : : The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes /

Mocking Bird Technologies : : The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes / / ed. by Melanie D. Holm, Christopher GoGwilt.

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Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.​Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended meditati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Brainerd, Madeleine,
Conway, Joe,
Easton, Fraser,
GoGwilt, Christopher,
Goldberg, Shari,
Holm, Melanie D.,
Kay, Sarah,
Kitao, Kaori,
Moore, Isabel A.,
Mustafa, Fawzia,
Sourgen, Gavin,
Vincent Meyer, Holt,
HerausgeberIn:
GoGwilt, Christopher,
Holm, Melanie D.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Parrots and Starlings
  • 1. "O Friends, There Are No Friends": The Aesthetics of Avian Sympathy in Defoe and Sterne
  • 2. The Avian Challenge of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana; or, The Pigeon Effect
  • 3. Smart's Professors: Birdsong and Rhetorical Agency in Jubilate Agno
  • 4. A Volatile Unity: Coleridge, Starling Murmurations, and Romantic Form
  • 5. Words Are for the Birds: "Non- reasoning Creatures Capable of Speech" in the Writings of Schreber and Poe
  • 6. Splitting the Lyric Lark; or, Dickinson's Music Box
  • 7. The Starling's Whistle: Autophilology and the Order of Osip Mandel'shtam's Birds
  • 8. Colonial and Postcolonial Birds of Game, Games of Bird
  • 9. Of Mimicry, Birds, and Words: The Technology of Starling Song in European, American, and Indonesian Poetry
  • 10. Yogini and Mynah Bird: On the Poetics and Politics of Transspecies Meditation
  • Afterword. A Starling Manifesto for Mocking Bird Technologies
  • Coda. Tornada, in Starling Form
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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