Writing on Sheep
Ecology, the Animal Turn and Sheep in Poetry
1st Edition
Published on 25. May 2021
216 pages
978-1-5261-5658-7 (ISBN)
Description
Sheep are marginalised in literary criticism and in discussion of pastoral literature. This book brings an animal studies approach to poetry about sheep that allows for the agency of these sentient beings, that have been associated for humans over ten thousand years. This approach highlights the distinction between wild and domesticated species and the moral dilemma between the goals of animal welfare and those of saving species from extinction. Discussion of mostly contemporary poetry follows a new reading of works from the pastoral and georgic canon. Allowing for the sentience and sociality of this species makes it easier to imagine a natureculture within which to make kin across the species boundary. Reading poetry about sheep has the power to make new meanings as we try to adapt to an increasingly complex and problematic environment. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
14 colour illustrations
14 colour illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-5658-7 (9781526156587)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
05/2021
Manchester University Press
€152.10
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
William Welstead is an independent scholar based on the Isle of Tiree -- .
Content
List of plates
Introduction
1 The animal turn and ecocriticism
2 Writing wildness: the Soay sheep of St Kilda
3 Natureculture in pastoralism and the literary pastoral
4 Culture and sheep in the English Lakeland
5 'Green Desert' or 'Living Landscape': sheep and people in the Welsh uplands
6 Sheep and contested land use in Scotland
7 Competing narratives on the farm and in poetry: Ted Hughes and Kay Syrad
8 Colonial sheep
9 Sheep and poetry in a heating world
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index -- .
Introduction
1 The animal turn and ecocriticism
2 Writing wildness: the Soay sheep of St Kilda
3 Natureculture in pastoralism and the literary pastoral
4 Culture and sheep in the English Lakeland
5 'Green Desert' or 'Living Landscape': sheep and people in the Welsh uplands
6 Sheep and contested land use in Scotland
7 Competing narratives on the farm and in poetry: Ted Hughes and Kay Syrad
8 Colonial sheep
9 Sheep and poetry in a heating world
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index -- .
