Year of Real and Literary Birds
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- ISBN 9781032873640
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life. The book paints an intimate portrait of a place and a diverse cast of authors by bringing to life the birds within landscapes both literary and actual. Intertwined within each chapter are animal narratives from a diverse sampling of writers, including, among others, Homer, the Brothers Grimm, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Thomas Pynchon, Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Mary Oliver, Bronislaw Maj, Mourning Dove, and (repeatedly, given Godfrey’s background as a Hemingway scholar) Ernest Hemingway. Using a blend of ecocriticism, animal studies, close reading, and the techniques of creative nonfiction, Godfrey unpacks the ways that authors and ornithologists spanning the centuries have tried to bridge the gap between human and nonhuman worlds.
Laura Godfrey is Associate Professor of English at North Idaho College. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, and has published academic and personal essays in journals such as Western American Literature, The Hemingway Review, and Arizona Quarterly and in edited collections including Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. Her first book, Hemingway's Geographies (Palgrave), appeared in 2016, and her second edited collection, Hemingway in the Digital Age (Kent State UP), was published in 2019.
