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When we accuse someone of `parroting,' we relegate bird mimicry to the margins; but what about the human mimicry of parrots, starlings, and other `mocking birds'? This collection explores transspecies communication and imitation in terms of language, rhythm and style. It is a signal contribution to animal studies, lyric theory, and the question of language(s). It also provides a wonderful de-centering of humans in the making of song and sense. -- Elaine Freedgood, New York University

When we accuse someone of 'parroting, ' we relegate bird mimicry to the margins; but what about the human mimicry of parrots, starlings, and other 'mocking birds'? This collection explores transspecies communication and imitation in terms of language, rhythm and style. It is a signal contribution to animal studies, lyric theory, and the question of language(s). It also provides a wonderful de-centering of humans in the making of song and sense. --Elaine Freedgood, New York University

When we accuse someone of 'parroting,' we relegate bird mimicry to the margins; but what about the human mimicry of parrots, starlings, and other 'mocking birds'? This collection explores transspecies communication and imitation in terms of language, rhythm and style. It is a signal contribution to animal studies, lyric theory, and the question of language(s). It also provides a wonderful de-centering of humans in the making of song and sense. -- Elaine Freedgood, New York University ...this is a wonderfully innovative collection that breaks open long-held conceptual barriers between critical and creative, and between animal and human, and in so doing creates new and liberating realms of critical and creative possibility. * Modern Philology *

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Christopher GoGwilt (Edited By) Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. Melanie D. Holm (Edited By) Melanie Holm is an Assistant Professor of English at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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