Green Thread

Dialogues with the Vegetal World

AvPatrícia Vieira,Monica Gagliano

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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 leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread”, echoing poet Dylan Thomas’ phrase “the green fuse”—carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, “the green thread” is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, “the green thread” links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal—a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-11
Mått:150 x 221 x 24 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498510615

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Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies at Georgetown University. Monica Gagliano is research associate professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Western Australia.John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in communications and arts at Edith Cowan University.

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“Over fifty years ago Rachel Carson wrote in Silent Spring that our “attitude toward plants is a singularly narrow one.” This book offers readers in the humanities and sciences a more broadly conceived and sophisticated interdisciplinary conversation about plants. More significantly, the book reinvigorates a human dialogue with plants that has been displaced by modern cultural attitudes toward the vegetal world.”

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John C. RyanSection I. Disseminating PlantsChapter 1. What’s Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept, Michael MarderChapter 2. Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature’s Wisdom, Monica GaglianoChapter 3. Tolkien’s Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth, John Charles RyanChapter 4. What’s Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication, Stefan RiegerChapter 5. “Wild Memory” as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries, Museums, and Seed Banks, Tom BristowSection II. Politicizing PlantsChapter 6. Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson’s “A Dying Race”, Jennifer SchellChapter 7. Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon, Patrícia VieiraChapter 8. Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era, Andrew HoweChapter