Edited book
The green thread : dialogues with the vegetal world
The green thread : dialogues with the vegetal world
Lexington Books
2016
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Abstract
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
Contents 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, 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.
Details
- Title
- The green thread : dialogues with the vegetal world
- Creators
- John C Ryan (Editor) - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Business, Law and ArtsPatricia I Vieira (Editor) - Georgetown UniversityMonica Gagliano (Editor) - Southern Cross University, Science
- Publication Details
- The green thread : dialogues with the vegetal world
- Publisher
- Lexington Books; Lanham
- Number of pages
- 298
- Identifiers
- 9781498510592; 1498510590; 991013063110902368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Faculty of Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Edited book