Burning Bright
Buchinger, Georg:
Burning Bright : the Tiger in Anglophone Literature / Georg Buchinger. - Marburg : Tectum Verlag, 2009. - 114 S.
Hochschulschrift. Zugl.: Wien, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2009 unter dem Titel: The tiger in Anglophone literature
ISBN 978-3-8288-2016-6
EUR 24,90 (Print-Ausg.)
EUR 19,90 (eBook)
Beschreibung
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night... Generations of English students have struggled with William Blake's world-famous poem. However, Blake's tyger is only one of many tigers that roam the dense forests of English literature: every child is familiar with the terrifying Shere Khan from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books, and millions of readers have enjoyed the adventures of an Indian boy who ended up with a Bengal tiger in a lifeboat in Yann Martel's bestseller Life of Pi.
This book covers 200 years of Anglophone tiger literature and provides an in-depth analysis of its key works. Moreover, the tiger is put in a wider context by giving a profound survey of the diverse roles that this fascinating animal has been playing in the cultures, myths and beliefs of many civilisations for centuries. [Verlagsinformation]
Inhalt
1. Introduction. 9
2. Tigers: a zoological introduction. 11
3. The relationship between tiger and man. 15
3.1 The cultural significance of the tiger. 15
3.2 The metaphorical and symbolic significance of the tiger. 31
4. The tiger in literatures around the world. 35
4.1 Asian literature. 35
4.2 Western literature. 39
5. The tiger in Anglophone literature. 45
5.1 William Blake, "The Tyger". 45
5.2 Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books. 51
5.3 H. H. Munro, "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger". 60
5.4 Angela Carter, "The Tiger's Bride". 64
5.5 R. K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi. 69
5.6 Yann Martel, Life of Pi. 78
5.7 Tigers in children's literature and young adult fiction. 88
6. Comparative analysis. 97
Bibliography. 101
Index. 115
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