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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Ecocritical Theory and Practice
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Ecocritical theory and practice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover-Page; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; SECTION I: DISSEMINATING PLANTS; 1 What's Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept; 2 Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature's Wisdom; 3 Tolkien's Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth; 4 What's Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication; 5 "Wild Memory" as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries, Museums, and Seed Banks; SECTION II: POLITICIZING PLANTS |
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6 Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson's "A Dying Race"7 Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon; 8 Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era; 9 Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral; 10 Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence's Lantana; SECTION III: PERFORMING PLANTS; 11 Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed, Branch, Flower; 12 Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window; 13 The Art of Human to Plant Interaction |
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14 The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices, and Endangered UsesIndex; About the Contributors |
| Summary |
The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants-defined by what they are thought to lack, including autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, arguably, intelligence-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetal beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plants (Philosophy)
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Plants (Philosophy) |
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NATURE -- Plants -- General. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany. |
| Added Author |
Vieira, Patricia I., 1977- editor.
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Gagliano, Monica, 1976- editor.
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Ryan, John (John Charles) (Poet), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Green thread 9781498510592 (DLC) 2015039112 (OCoLC)922913779 |
| ISBN |
9781498510608 (electronic book) |
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1498510604 (electronic book) |
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9781498510592 |
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1498510590 |
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