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The figure of the animal in modern and contemporary poetry /

3319706667

9783319706665

3319706659

9783319706658

The figure of the animal in modern and contemporary poetry /

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Michael Malay.

Cham :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2018.

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Palgrave studies in animals and literature

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Permissions; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Why Look at Animals?: Poetry andtheDifficulty ofReality; The Moose; The Horse; 'The Difficulty ofReality'; Rilke's Panther, Hughes's Jaguar; Animals inModern andContemporary Poetry; Chapter 2: The Homely andtheWild inMarianne Moore andElizabeth Bishop; Conspicuous Comparison; Oblique Metaphor; A Quiet Subversiveness; 'The Jerboa'; Freeing theAnimal; 'The Fish'; Ways ofSeeing; Bookworms, Both; Chapter 3: Rhythmic Contact: Ted Hughes andAnimal Life; The Hawk intheRain; Violent Transformation.

Becoming-AnimalThe Machine intheGarden; The Animal Body; 'The Misfortune ofBeing Physical'; The River's Wheel; Chapter 4: Presence andtheMystery ofEmbodiment: Les Murray's Translations fromtheNatural World; Presence; Pied Beauty; Animal Dreaming; 'The Weave ofPresence'; Translation by Analogy; Wild Translation; Sacramental Excess; Chapter 5: Poetry's Electric Being; Among Twenty Snowy Mountains; Barren Leaves; I WasofThree Minds; The Act ofFinding What Will Suffice; Life Under theMechanism; Accuracy, Spontaneity, Mystery; Words asAnimals; The Health ofTranslation.

Tiny Son ofLifeChe cos'e la Poesia?; The Hedgehog; Beautiful Innocent; Poetry's Excess; Works Cited; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Index.

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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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Figure of the animal in modern and contemporary poetry.

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Bishop, Elizabeth,1911-1979-- Criticism and interpretation.

Hughes, Ted,1930-1998-- Criticism and interpretation.

Moore, Marianne,1887-1972-- Criticism and interpretation.

Murray, Les A.,1938-2019-- Criticism and interpretation.

Bishop, Elizabeth,1911-1979

Hughes, Ted,1930-1998

Moore, Marianne,1887-1972

Murray, Les A.,1938-2019

Animals in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Animals in literature.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

BIO-- 007000

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Malay, Michael

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