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First published in 2003, this book examines the creative
partnership of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and provides
a critical analysis of the poems written by this famous couple
during the 16 year period of their friendship, courtship and
marriage. Even quite early in their relationship, the Brownings
shared a frame of reference: similar themes, narrative structures,
and details of phrasing resonate in their works and suggest
dialogue, rather than merely mutual influence. Pollock traces
parallels between the Brownings' lives and works even before they
met, and then throughout their courtship and married life,
suggesting that their creative dialogue continued after Barrett
Browning died in 1861, as her presence and themes continued to
inform Browning's poetry for at least a decade afterward.
First published in 2003, this book examines the creative
partnership of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and provides
a critical analysis of the poems written by this famous couple
during the 16 year period of their friendship, courtship and
marriage. Even quite early in their relationship, the Brownings
shared a frame of reference: similar themes, narrative structures,
and details of phrasing resonate in their works and suggest
dialogue, rather than merely mutual influence. Pollock traces
parallels between the Brownings' lives and works even before they
met, and then throughout their courtship and married life,
suggesting that their creative dialogue continued after Barrett
Browning died in 1861, as her presence and themes continued to
inform Browning's poetry for at least a decade afterward.
The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about
charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and
remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of
Tanzania, whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has
studied for decades; the mountain gorillas of the Virungas,
chronicled first by George Schaller and then later, more
obsessively, by Dian Fossey; various species of monkeys (Indian
langurs, Kenyan baboons, and Brazilian spider monkeys) studied by
Sarah Hrdy, Shirley Strum, Robert Sapolsky, Barbara Smuts, and
Karen Strier; and finally the orangutans of the Bornean woodlands,
whom Biruté Galdikas has observed passionately. Humans are, after
all, storytelling apes. The narrative urge is encoded in our DNA,
along with large brains, nimble fingers, and color vision, traits
we share with lemurs, monkeys, and apes. In Storytelling Apes, Mary
Sanders Pollock traces the development and evolution of primatology
field narratives while reflecting upon the development of the
discipline and the changing conditions within natural primate
habitat. Like almost every other field primatologist who followed
her, Jane Goodall recognized the individuality of her study
animals: defying formal scientific protocols, she named her
chimpanzee subjects instead of numbering them, thereby establishing
a trend. For Goodall, Fossey, Sapolsky, and numerous other
scientists whose works are discussed in Storytelling Apes,
free-living primates became fully realized characters in romances,
tragedies, comedies, and never-ending soap operas. With this work,
Pollock shows readers with a humanist perspective that science
writing can have remarkable literary value, encourages scientists
to share their passions with the general public, and inspires the
conservation community.
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