Oerlemans, Onno, 1961-

Poetry and animals : blurring the boundaries with the human / Onno Oerlemans. - xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.

Introduction -- The animal in allegory: from Chaucer to Gray -- Poems of the animal -- Poetry as field guide: the species poem -- The individual animal in poetry -- Of hybridity and the hybrid -- Coda.

9780231159548 (cloth : alk. paper)

2017049986


Animals in literature.
Exempla in literature.
Anthropomorphism in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animal welfare in literature.
Animals--Symbolic aspects.
Poetry, Modern--History and criticism.
Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.

PN1083.A5 / O37 2018

809.1/9362