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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
