Interpreting Nightingales

Interpreting Nightingales
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781847141859
ISBN-13 : 1847141854
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Book Synopsis Interpreting Nightingales by : Jeni Williams

Download or read book Interpreting Nightingales written by Jeni Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.


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