The green thread: dialogues with the vegetal world
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The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume i…
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- Full title :The green thread : dialogues with the vegetal world / edited by Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan.
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The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.
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- Publication Date:2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Lexington Books
- Place of Publication:Lanham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016
The Physical Object
- Description:xxvii, 298 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781498510592, 1498510590
- oclc:ocn936082941
- LC Classification:B105.P535
- Dewey Decimal:580.1
Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: SECTION I DISSEMINATING PLANTS -- 1. What's Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept / Michael Marder -- 2. Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature's Wisdom / Monica Gagliano -- 3. Tolkien's Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth / John Charles Ryan -- 4. What's Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication / Stefan Rieger -- 5."Wild Memory" as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries, Museums, and Seed Banks / Tom Bristow -- SECTION II POLITICIZING PLANTS -- 6. Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson's "A Dying Race" / Jennifer Schell -- 7. Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon / Patricia Vieira -- 8. Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era / Andrew Howe
Note continued: 9. Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral / Gioia Woods -- 10. Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence's Lantana / Hannah Stark -- SECTION III PERFORMING PLANTS -- 11. Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed, Bran…
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