Green Thread

Dialogues with the Vegetal World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan, Patricia Vieira

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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 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

Utgivningsdatum2015-12-24
Mått158 x 237 x 28 mm
Vikt621 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor326
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498510592

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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 9. Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral, Gioia WoodsChapter 10. Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence’s Lantana, Guinevere Narraway and Hannah StarkSection III. Performing PlantsChapter 11. Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed, Branch, Flower, Graig UhlinChapter 12. Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window, Pansy DuncanChapter 13. The Art of Human to Plant Interaction, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, andFlorian WeilChapter 14. The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices and Endangered Uses, Alan ReadContributors

“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.”