Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human.
- Author / Editor
- Oerlemans, Onno.
Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human.
- Published
- New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xii, 238 pp.
- Description
- Explores the range of representations of animals in English poetry for the ways poems can generate knowledge of animal life and sympathy for it, analyzing animal fables, poems that treat animals generally, species poems, poems about individual animals, and transformations and hybridities. Includes discussion of NPT as perhaps "the most complex animal fable poem in English," focusing on the "moments in the poem where the normal human and animal hierarchy is inverted or the categories blended so that we see humans as animals too."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale