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The Green Thread : Dialogues With The Vegetal World / edited by Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan

The Green Thread : Dialogues With The Vegetal World / edited by Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan
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ISBN 9781498510615
Title The Green Thread : Dialogues With The Vegetal World / edited by Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan
Publisher and/or associated date/s Lanham, USA : Lexington Books, 2015.
Description xxvii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Contents 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 -- 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, Branch, Flower / Graig Uhlin -- 12.Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window / Pansy Duncan -- 13.The Art of Human to Plant Interaction / Florian Weil -- 14.The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices, and Endangered Uses / Alan Read.
Summary The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants- including autonomy, agency, and consciousness-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetable beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.
Subjects Environmental literature
Philosophy of nature
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Vieira, Patrícia (editor)
Gagliano, Monica (editor)
Ryan, John (editor)
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