03257nam 2200565 450 991081518840332120170919004831.01-4985-1060-4(CKB)3710000000552131(EBL)4309748(SSID)ssj0001591560(PQKBManifestationID)16289917(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591560(PQKBWorkID)14863714(PQKB)10621074(MiAaPQ)EBC4309748(EXLCZ)99371000000055213120160119h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe green thread dialogues with the vegetal world /edited by Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John RyanLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2016.©20161 online resource (257 p.)Ecocritical Theory and PracticeDescription based upon print version of record.1-4985-1061-2 1-4985-1059-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PLANTS6 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 Interaction14 The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices, and Endangered UsesIndex; About the ContributorsThe 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.Ecocritical Theory and PracticePlants (Philosophy)Plants (Philosophy)580.1Vieira PatriciaGagliano MonicaRyan JohnMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815188403321The green thread4070975UNINA