LEADER 04606nam 2200541 450 001 9910453480103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0999-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209991 035 $a(CKB)2550000001182779 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1598086 035 $a(OCoLC)868282803$z(OCoLC)961695209$z(OCoLC)962721784$z(OCoLC)982239919$z(OCoLC)982345752$z(OCoLC)989104895 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1598086 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10826896 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL562805 035 $a(OCoLC)868282803 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001182779 100 $a20140128h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aPlants and literature $eessays in critical plant studies /$fedited by Randy Laist ; cover illustration by Jim Horwitz 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands ;$aNew York :$cRodopi,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) 225 0 $aCritical plant studies ;$v1 311 $a90-420-3748-2 311 $a1-306-31554-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction /$rRandy Laist -- $tThe Progress of Vegetation: Subversion and Vegetarianism in Mansfield Park /$rBetsy Winakur Tontiplaphol -- $tPlants and the Problem of Authority in the Antebellum U.S. South /$rLynne Feeley -- $tTemptation of Fruit: The Symbolism of Fruit in Christina Rossetti?s ?Goblin Market? and in the Works of D. G. Rossetti and J. E. Millais /$rAkemi Yoshida -- $tThis is Your Brain on Wheat: The Psychology of the Speculator in Frank Norris? The Pit /$rGraham Culbertson -- $tRefusing Form: A Reading of Art, Americanism, and Feminism through Plant Imagery in Susan Glaspell?s The Verge /$rStacey Artman -- $tSurviving the City: Resistance and Plant life in Woolf?s Jacob?s Room and Barnes? Nightwood /$rRia Banerjee -- $tThe Smell of Cottonwood Leaves: Plants and Tayo?s Healing in Silko?s Ceremony /$rUbaraj Katawal -- $tThe Bible?s Paradise and Oryx and Crake?s Paradice: A Comparison of the Relationships between Humans and Nature /$rRhona Trauvitch -- $tIconic/Ironic Greenery: The Cultural Cultivation of Plants in Brecht Evens? The Making Of /$rCharlotte Pylyser -- $tA Return to Transcendentalism in the Twentieth Century: Emerging Plant-Sympathy in The Little Shop of Horrors /$rStephanie Lim -- $tMean Green Machine: How the Ecological Politics of Alan Moore?s Reimagination of Swamp Thing Brought Eco-consciousness to Comics /$rHindi Krinsky -- $tReproducing Plant Bodies on the Great Plains /$rAubrey Streit Krug -- $tContributors -- $tIndex. 330 $aMyth, art, literature, film, and other discourses are replete with depictions of evil plants, salvific plants, and human-plant hybrids. In various ways, these representations intersect with ?deep-rooted? insecurities about the place of human beings in the natural world, the relative viability of animalian motility and heterotrophy as evolutionary strategies, as well as the identity of organic life as such . Plants surprise us by combining the appearance of harmlessness and familiarity with an underlying strangeness. The otherness of vegetal life poses a challenge to our ethical, philosophical, and existential categories and tests the limits of human empathy and imagination. At the same time, the resilience of plants, their adaptability, and their integration with their habitat are a perennial source of inspiration and wisdom. Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies examines the manner in which literary texts and other cultural products express our multifaceted relationship with the vegetable kingdom. The range of perspectives brought to bear on the subject of plant life by the various authors and critics represented in this volume comprise a novel vision of ecological interdependence and stimulate a revitalized sensitivity to the relationships we share with our photosynthetic brethren. 410 0$aCritical Plant Studies$v1. 606 $aEssays$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEssays$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.4 701 $aLaist$b Randy$f1974-$0882186 701 $aHorwitz$b Jim$0882187 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453480103321 996 $aPlants and literature$91970519 997 $aUNINA