At the heart of this theme lies a challenge to traditional comparative literature.
The theme of the ACLA conference-“Global Positioning Systems”-playfully highlighted the increasing emphasis in literary and cultural studies on technology and on the “global,” as well as the interrelation between the two. The volume has its origin in a series of talks and discussions organized for the 2013 meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. The essays examine the historical, poetic, and semiotic problem of mimesis exemplified both by the imitative behavior of starlings, parrots, and other mocking birds and by the poetic trope of such birds in a range of literary and philological traditions. In a set of original essays on the comparative and global poetics of bird mimicry, illustrated by verbal and visual specimens, the collection embraces a range of theoretical and critical perspectives. This volume offers an extended meditation on bird mimicry.
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