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Journal articles on the topic "Parrots in literature"
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Carter, Paul. "Parrot Interpreter: Representation, Extinction and the Electronic Information Environment." Cultural Studies Review 12, no. 1 (2013): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v12i1.3416.
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Humans, it seems, can’t get enough of parrots. Ethnography, folklore, psychology, and, of course, imaginative literature all offer copious evidence of our fantasy of living with, communicating with and even being parrots. The natural history of parrots and the cultural history of parrots present something of a conundrum: on the one hand, a massive destructiveness (illegal bird and feather trade, environment destruction, scientific collections); on the other, an often erotically inflected sympathetic identification leading to the production of new forms. It’s strange to realise that Europe is infested with a shadow population of captive and inbred budgerigars, whose numbers far exceed those remaining in the wild and who can never return to their origins. If, as our privileged other, our uncanny mimic and double, the parrot still fails to survive, what does this tell us about our economy of desire? It seems that to know is to consume and destroy; and that the apparent contrast between the operations of the rainforest loggers and bird-trappers and the sentimental representations and transformations parrot suffers in human society is overdrawn. How is this contradiction to be explained?
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Anderson, Patricia. "A Bird in the House: An Anthropological Perspective on Companion Parrots." Society & Animals 11, no. 4 (2003): 393–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853003322796109.
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AbstractAlthough companion birds are the third most-common animal companion—after dogs and cats—in U.S. households, few anthrozoological publications focus on them. This study examines the role of companion parrots in American households. The study combines a literature review with the results of a survey of bird owners and participant observation. The study uses the resulting qualitative and quantitative data in addressing the social dynamics of companion parrot ownership in the household. The data support the impression that companion parrots increasingly are being considered family members, or "Fids" ("Feathered Kids"), thus following current trends in American society that accord companion animals in general a greater investment in time, money, and emotion. However, the general public is not well informed about the complexities of captive parrot care, and psittacine wellness is an important concern.
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McMunn, Meradith T. "Parrots and Poets in Late Medieval Literature." Anthrozoös 12, no. 2 (1999): 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/089279399787000345.
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Blanco, Guillermo, Carolina Bravo, Erica C. Pacifico, et al. "Internal seed dispersal by parrots: an overview of a neglected mutualism." PeerJ 4 (February 22, 2016): e1688. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1688.
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Despite the fact that parrots (Psitacifformes) are generalist apex frugivores, they have largely been considered plant antagonists and thus neglected as seed dispersers of their food plants. Internal dispersal was investigated by searching for seeds in faeces opportunistically collected at communal roosts, foraging sites and nests of eleven parrot species in different habitats and biomes in the Neotropics. Multiple intact seeds of seven plant species of five families were found in a variable proportion of faeces from four parrot species. The mean number of seeds of each plant species per dropping ranged between one and about sixty, with a maximum of almost five hundred seeds from the cactiPilosocereus pachycladusin a single dropping of Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari). All seeds retrieved were small (<3 mm) and corresponded to herbs and relatively large, multiple-seeded fleshy berries and infrutescences from shrubs, trees and columnar cacti, often also dispersed by stomatochory. An overview of the potential constraints driving seed dispersal suggest that, despite the obvious size difference between seeds dispersed by endozoochory and stomatochory, there is no clear difference in fruit size depending on the dispersal mode. Regardless of the enhanced or limited germination capability after gut transit, a relatively large proportion of cacti seeds frequently found in the faeces of two parrot species were viable according to the tetrazolium test and germination experiments. The conservative results of our exploratory sampling and a literature review clearly indicate that the importance of parrots as endozoochorous dispersers has been largely under-appreciated due to the lack of research systematically searching for seeds in their faeces. We encourage the evaluation of seed dispersal and other mutualistic interactions mediated by parrots before their generalized population declines contribute to the collapse of key ecosystem processes.
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Lambert, Megan L., Ivo Jacobs, Mathias Osvath, and Auguste M. P. von Bayern. "Birds of a feather? Parrot and corvid cognition compared." Behaviour 156, no. 5-8 (2019): 505–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003527.
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Abstract The last several decades of research on avian cognition have revealed surprising parallels between the abilities of birds — most notably corvids — and great apes. Parrots, albeit far less studied, are cited alongside corvids as “feathered apes”, but are these two taxa really that similar cognitively? In this review we aim to take a step back and present the broader picture, focusing on areas where there is now data from both parrots and corvids to facilitate first comparisons on a somewhat wider scale. By charting these birds’ performance in cognitive tasks, in many of which corvids perform on par with primates, we hope to highlight understudied areas and promising directions for future research. In reviewing the literature, the general pattern that emerges shows that different corvid and parrot species indeed perform similarly in a range of cognitive tasks to the extent that one may call them “feathered apes”.
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Levine, David M. "A Festival of Parrots." Antioch Review 46, no. 1 (1988): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4611820.
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Kajerova, V., V. Barus, and I. Literak. "Nematodes from the genus Ascaridia parasitizing psittaciform birds: a review and determination key." Veterinární Medicína 49, No. 6 (2012): 217–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/5698-vetmed.
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In parrots (Psittaciformes), seven nematode species of genus Ascaridia have been found so far, both in wild birds and in birds in captivity. Five species are specific for parrots: Ascaridia hermaphrodita, A. sergiomeirai, A. ornata, A. nicobarensis and A. platyceri. Two species: A. galli and A. columbae, that infect gallinaceous and columbiform birds, respectively, were found also in parrots. On the basis of data from the literature and our own observations the taxonomy, synonyms and list of definite hosts of these nematode species were reviewed. The morphometrical features of nematode species were compiled and a determination key was added.
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Williams, JB, PC Withers, SD Bradshaw, and KA Nagy. "Metabolism and Water Flux of Captive and Free-Living Australian Parrots." Australian Journal of Zoology 39, no. 2 (1991): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo9910131.
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Occupation of desert environments often requires evolutionary specialisations that minimise food and water requirements. One physiological adjustment to living in a hot, dry climate that has been found in several laboratory studies of birds is a reduced basal metabolic rate (BMR), which often translates into a diminished rate of evaporative water loss (EWL). In free-living birds, these physiological traits are thought to result in a lower field metabolic rate and water flux. We studied metabolism and water flux of a number of species of Australian parrots, both in the laboratory and in the field. After combining our laboratory data with values from the literature, we performed allometric analyses to search for evolutionary specialisation in metabolism and water flux in desert-adapted parrots. Our data do not support the idea that parrots living in arid environments have a reduced BMR. Field metabolic rates of parrots from western Australia were indistinguishable from those of other nonpasserine birds. Laboratory EWL was significantly lower for parrots living in desert environments than for those occupying more mesic habitats, and often lower than that expected from body size. Some species of parrots that live in desert regions of Australia have evolved mechanisms that reduce EWL, but this does not involve a reduction in BMR. In the field, parrots living in Western Australia had a lower water influx than predicted for nonpasserines, but this did not approach the value often found in other desert-adapted species. Values for the water economy index (water flux in free-living animals relative to their energy metabolism) were among the lowest that have been reported for desert-adapted birds.
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Gonzalez-Astudillo, Viviana, Aslı Mete, Mauricio A. Navarro, Francisco A. Uzal, and Javier Asin. "Alimentary squamous cell carcinoma in psittacines: 12 cases and review of the literature." Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 33, no. 5 (2021): 906–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10406387211021480.
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Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), which is a neoplasm that usually arises from the integument, is reported uncommonly in pet birds. Only a few reports of SCCs in the alimentary tract of birds, including psittacines, have been published, and a detailed description of the pathology is not available in the literature. We present here 12 cases of alimentary SCC in psittacines. The average age of the birds was 22.2 y (range: 15–29 y), and affected species included 4 Amazon parrots ( Amazona sp.), 3 cockatiels ( Nymphicus hollandicus), 3 macaws ( Ara sp.), 1 conure ( Eupsittula sp.), and 1 Senegal parrot ( Poicephalus sp.). Frequent clinical complaints included regurgitation, dysphagia, dyspnea, lethargy, and/or weight loss. SCC primarily affected the oral cavity in 6 of 12 cases, the crop alone in 2 of 12 cases, the crop and esophagus in 1 of 12 cases, the proventriculus alone in 1 of 12 cases, and the crop, esophagus, and proventriculus in 2 of 12 cases. Histologically, alimentary SCCs were locally invasive and often resulted in mucosal ulceration. Although there were no metastases in any of our cases, poor clinical outcomes were frequent and associated most commonly with complete effacement of the alimentary segment and severe inflammation with opportunistic bacterial infection. Our review of the literature records commonly affected species, variability of gross presentations and clinical signs, plausible etiologies, and current diagnostic developments.
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Mack, Andrew L., and Debra D. Wright. "The Vulturine Parrot, Psittrichas fulgidus, a threatened New Guinea endemic: notes on its biology and conservation." Bird Conservation International 8, no. 2 (1998): 185–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270900003257.
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SummaryVulturine Parrots Psittrichas fulgidus are endemic to the island of New Guinea. A review of the literature and specimen holdings indicate the species mostly occurs 500 to 1800 m a.s.l. Observations suggest the species occurs in low densities. The species is a highly specialized frugivore feeding on just a few species of figs (Ficus, Moraceae). These parrots are heavily exploited (often by destroying scarce nesting cavities) in Papua New Guinea for their feathers, used in traditional adornment. This practice might not be sustainable and four possible conservation measures are suggested: (1) increase field studies; (2) restrict transport of live birds on domestic flights; (3) replace use of Psittrichas feathers with dyed chicken feathers; (4) instruct tourists not to purchase handicrafts containing Psittrichas or other animal parts.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Parrots in literature"
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Voiles, Rebekah, and Clay Matthews. "Greed and Parrots: Examining the Emergence of Pirate Tropes in Treasure Island." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/6.
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In modern pop-culture, the prevalence of tropes is eminent. Without a knowledge of common themes and overgeneralizations, an author’s work will fail to attract a sufficient audience. One of these encompassing tropes includes the pirate trope. Pirate tropes range from physical aspects, such as eyepatches and tricornes, to the psychological implications of greed and villainy. Understanding the origin of tropes helps eliminate the over usage and transformation of tropes. The current study, a textual analysis, examines the popularized pirate novel Treasure Island and compares its’ tropes to the first collection of pirate biographies, A General History of Pyrates. The researcher hopes to discover many, if not all, of the tropes found in Treasure Island originated, through explicit evidence or variances, from A General History of Pyrates. The study will also utilize the New Historicism approach. Through New Historicism, the researcher will examine what historical accounts, including political, cultural, and economic strife, led Treasure Island to emerge as the most well-known pirate novel, rather than its predecessors. Thus far, the research has indicated that Treasure Island emerged as the prime pirate novel due to several factors, including America’s proximity to piracy during the 18th century. These associations include, but are not limited to: America’s trade system with pirates, proximity to pirate dwellings in North America, Americans’ desire of freedom associated with pirates, and democracy based politics practiced among outlaw captains and crewmembers. Stevenson illustrated these points in Treasure Island, which ties the novel’s timeless tropes with today’s conceptions of piracy. In addition, Stevenson used tropes from other novels associated with pirates including: Sir Walter Scott’s The Pirate; Washington Irving’s Tales of a Traveller; Captain Frederick Marryat’s “The Pirate”; Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Gold-Bug”; and several works by Daniel Defoe. Stevenson combined these tropes in Treasure Island while also using A General History of Pirates as a guide to ensure creditability. These tropes, brought to attention by Stevenson, continue to flourish in modern depictions of 18th century pirates.
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Shahbaz, Pegah. "Les récits persans en prose en Inde : exemple : Touti-Nâme." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC030.
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Ce travail de recherche vise à présenter une collection de récits traditionnels persans, soit tirés et traduits des ressources indiennes, soit écrits et composés directement en persan dans le sous-continent. Notre attention s'est portée sur les récits en prose qui détiennent plusieurs emprunts de la tradition et la culture indienne, et ceux qui sont enrichis par des éléments narratifs et imaginaires fabuleux. Ces spécificités apparaissent dans de divers aspects : la structure du récit-cadre, les thèmes principaux et les personnages des contes. Les récits indo-persans sélectionnés sont présentés en détail par des informations sur leurs auteurs / traducteurs, la date et le lieu de composition, leurs thématiques, leurs sources originales, les manuscrits disponibles et d'autres références. La recherche actuelle est également un effort pour la pratique et le développement de la perception symbolique dans les récits classiques. Touti-Nâme, choisi comme le corpus de notre étude, nous fournit des scènes sur la vie sociale, les relations intimes et conjugales dans les contextes individuels et sociaux. J’ai examiné les thèmes dominants de la ruse des femmes, du conflit entre le désir et la loi, du rêve et du rire à travers des approches mythiques et symboliques. Le rôle prépondérant des personnages féminins et des perroquets sont étudiés profondément dans les contes. J'ai aussi essayé d'analyser les aspects psychiques des personnages par le biais de l'approche psychanalytique jungienne. Des exemples concrets de l'autorité et des jeux de pouvoir entre les sexes sont donnés dans Touti-Nâme comme spécificité des sociétés traditionnelles patriarcales<br>The present research aims to introduce a collection of Persian traditional narratives, either translated from Indian sources, or written and composed directly into Persian language in the sub-continent. Our focus has been on prose narratives which hold multiple specificities borrowed from Indian tradition and culture, and are enriched by fabulous and imaginary narrative elements. Such specificities appear in diverse aspects : the frame structure of the stories, the leading themes and the typical Indian characters. These stories are presented in detail by providing information about their authors / translators, date and place of composition, themes, original sources, available manuscripts and other references.The current research is also an endeavor to practice and develop symbolic perception in classical stories. Touti-Nâme, chosen as our target text, demonstrates social life, conjugal relationships and power-struggle in both individual and social contexts. The dominant themes of women’s guiles and tricks, love and law conflict, dream and laughter have been examined through mythical and symbolic approaches. Women characters and birds such as parrots have gone through profound studies due to their predominant roles within the tales. I have also tried to study psychological aspects of story characters and their role in the events by means of the Jungian psychoanalytical approach. Concrete examples of gender authority and power-games in traditional patriarchal societies have been given in Touti-Nâme
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Calvi, Pablo L. "The Parrot and the Cannon: Journalism, Literature and Politics in the Formation of Latin American Identities." Thesis, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KH0V8D.
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The Parrot and the Cannon. Journalism, Literature and Politics in the Formation of Latin American Identities explores the emergence of literary journalism in Latin America as a central aspect in the formation of national identities. Focusing on five periods in Latin American history from the post-colonial times until the 1960s, it follows the evolution of this narrative genre in parallel with the consolidation of professional journalism, the modern Latin American mass media and the formation of nation states. In the process, this dissertation also studies literary journalism as a genre, as a professional practice, and most importantly as a political instrument. By exploring the connections between journalism, literature and politics, this dissertation also illustrates the difference between the notions of factuality, reality and journalistic truth as conceived in Latin America and the United States, while describing the origins of Latin American militant journalism as a social-historical formation.
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Rossmann, Jean. "A study of intertextuality, intimacy and place in Barbara Adair's In Tangier we killed the blue parrot." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1286.
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In my thesis, I argue that Barbara Adair's In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot can be viewed as a palimpsest. In this sense her re-inscription of the lives and fictions of lane and Paul Bowles in the International Zone of Tangier, Morocco, in the 1940s reflects on and is implicated in the contemporary South African Zeitgeist. Through illuminating the spatial and temporal connections between the literary text and the social text, I suggest that Adair's novel creates a space for the expression of new patterns of intimacy. The Bowleses' open marriage and their same-sex relationships with local Moroccans are complicated by hegemonies of race, class and gender. To illustrate the nature of these vexed intimacies I explore Paul's sadomasochistic relationship with the young hustler, Belquassim, revealing the emancipatory nature of the expatriate's erotic and violent encounter with the Other. Conversely, I suggest the shades of Orientalism and exoticism in this relationship. While Adair is innovative in her representation of the male characters, I argue that she perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes in her representation of the female characters in the novel. lane is re-inscribed in myths of madness and selfdestruction, while her lover, Cherifa, vilified and unknowable, is depicted as a wicked witch. This study interrogates the process of selection and representation chosen by Adair, which proceeds from her own intentionality and positionality, as a South African, as a human rights law lecturer, as a (white) woman and as a woman writer. These explorations reveal the liberatory re-imagining of new patterns of intimacy, as well as the limitations of being bound by the implicit racial and gendered divisions of contemporary South African society.<br>http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1286<br>Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.
Books on the topic "Parrots in literature"
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Bronfen, Elisabeth, and Julijana Nadj. "Barnes, Julian: Flaubert's Parrot." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_7952-1.
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Wetmore, Alex. "‘No Parrot, Either in Morality or Sentiment’: Talking Birds and Mechanical Copying in the Age of Sensibility." In Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32792-7_8.
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Mangham, Andrew. "Charles Dickens." In The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850038.003.0005.
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This chapter illustrates how Charles Dickens found the materiality of starvation a powerful method for addressing the social injustices that angered him. Less balanced than Gaskell and less conflicted than Kingsley, he pulled no punches when it came to the ‘Parrots of Society’—those subscribers to hypocritical, dogmatic interpretations of political economy whose efforts to deal with social problems became, he believed, abortive subscriptions to a malicious laissez faire. The chapter argues that we need to understand these red-hot polemics as a response to, and an appropriation of, the scientific registers of men like Thomas Southwood Smith. What Dickens found in science was a materialism that allowed his challenges to the shallow cant of reformers and politicians to morph into an attack on their perceived stupidity: Dickens was able to use the science of starving as a means of grounding a radical position within a thoughtful materialist one.
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Kajita, Yui. "Calling Parrots in Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen: A Communion in The London Mercury." In The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461085.003.0009.
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In The London Mercury, Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen each published a short story featuring a cryptic parrot within three months of each other: de la Mare’s ‘Pretty Poll’ appeared in the April 1925 number, and Bowen’s ‘The Parrot’ in July 1925. Given Bowen’s appreciation for de la Mare’s work and her familiarity with The London Mercury as the ‘dominating magazine’ in the 1920s, this publication context turns their stories into possible companion pieces. This chapter first delineates the textual and thematic links between the two stories, then explores how the magazine — its presentation; its interactive community of contributors and readers; and its self-professed position as an arbiter of taste, committed to protecting and advancing literature and culture — plays a role in this intertextual communication between the two stories, which influences our interpretation. Both stories participate in the aesthetic debates in The London Mercury, subtly challenging some of its contributors’ assumptions about prose fiction. As this analysis of the magazine’s contents alongside the two authors’ literary essays show, the characteristics of the magazine seem to have stimulated de la Mare and Bowen to engage with questions of genre and form through their own stories.
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Holm, Melanie D. "“O Friends, There Are No Friends”: The Aesthetics of Avian Sympathy in Defoe and Sterne." In Mocking Bird Technologies. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823278480.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the use of avian figures in eighteenth-century British literature, focusing on their role as interrogators of sympathy. Taking Daniel Defoe’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy as exemplary though opposing approaches, the chapter explores how the speech of each novel’s respective “mocking bird”—the parrot, Poll, and Yorick’s starling—raises questions about the imaginative and mimetic nature of sympathy, particularly as it is given expression by Adam Smith. Both birds, it is argued, unmask the subjectivity as well as the aesthetic and affective dimensions of sympathy for their listeners. However, the novels place an usually high value on these categories, proposing that that there are two ways to respond productively to the artifices of sympathy: the parrot’s way and the starling’s way.
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"Rhapsody on the Parrot." In Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III. Princeton University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400864430.49.
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"Jackson’s Parrot: Samuel Beckett, Aphasic Speech Automatisms, and Psychosomatic Language." In Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203798089-10.
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"Meine fußballerische Heimat Ein Unterrichtsvorhaben im Anschluss an Rolf Parrs Untersuchungen von Nationalstereotypen im Fußballdiskurs." In Literatur als Interdiskurs. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/9783846761557_012.
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Nave, Orly Hadani. "Pracchana Bārhaspatyam". У Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199483594.003.0005.
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This article offers a rich analytical discussion of one of the most amusing of the embedded narratives in Mantrāṅkam—the tale of Iṭṭuṇṇūli and the parrot that eventually outwits her. This story has ancient roots in the Kathā literature but has acquired a peculiarly Keralan character in the process of being integrated into Mantrāṅkam, where it functions as a condensed emblematic statement of the major themes of the play as a whole. Nave has tried to decipher some of the major themes crucial to the project as a whole as they appear in one embedded tale. The play of Mantrāṅkam is considered to be one of the jewels of Kūṭiyāṭṭam. It places an immense strain on the performer and on his memory. It entails a great potential for tension along with enormous effort of the performer.