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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION Parrots and Starlings

CHAPTER 1 “O Friends, There Are No Friends”: The Aesthetics of Avian Sympathy in Defoe and Sterne

CHAPTER 2 The Avian Challenge of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana; or, The Pigeon Effect

CHAPTER 3 Smart’s Professors: Birdsong and Rhetorical Agency in Jubilate Agno

CHAPTER 4 A Volatile Unity: Coleridge, Starling Murmurations, and Romantic Form

CHAPTER 5 Words Are for the Birds: “Non-reasoning Creatures Capable of Speech” in the Writings of Schreber and Poe

CHAPTER 6 Splitting the Lyric Lark; or, Dickinson’s Music Box

CHAPTER 7 The Starling’s Whistle: Autophilology and the Order of Osip Mandel’shtam’s Birds

CHAPTER 8 Colonial and Postcolonial Birds of Game, Games of Bird

CHAPTER 9 Of Mimicry, Birds, and Words: The Technology of Starling Song in European, American, and Indonesian Poetry

CHAPTER 10 Yogini and Mynah Bird: On the Poetics and Politics of Transspecies Meditation

AFTERWORD A “Starling” Manifesto for Mocking Bird Technologies

CODA Tornada, in Starling Form

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

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