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A year of real and literary birds

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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 non-human worlds"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : "of mere being" -- Regarding birds -- From a Snowshoer's notebook -- Song sparrow in a pandemic -- In all the garden round -- Swainson's thrush -- Habitat edges -- Dawn chorus -- House wren -- Clark's nutcracker and the whitebark pine -- Already, before long -- Home for a grouse -- Sky atlas.

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Godfrey, Laura Gruber. A year of real and literary birds

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T22:39:39.978587+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24137527

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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