LEADER 03257nam 2200565 450 001 9910815188403321 005 20170919004831.0 010 $a1-4985-1060-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000552131 035 $a(EBL)4309748 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001591560 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16289917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591560 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14863714 035 $a(PQKB)10621074 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4309748 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000552131 100 $a20160119h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe green thread $edialogues with the vegetal world /$fedited by Patri?cia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John Ryan 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aEcocritical Theory and Practice 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4985-1061-2 311 $a1-4985-1059-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover-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 PLANTS 327 $a6 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 Interaction 327 $a14 The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices, and Endangered UsesIndex; About the Contributors 330 $aThe Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants-defined by what they are thought to lack, including autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, arguably, intelligence-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetal beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible. 410 0$aEcocritical Theory and Practice 606 $aPlants (Philosophy) 615 0$aPlants (Philosophy) 676 $a580.1 702 $aVieira$b Patricia 702 $aGagliano$b Monica 702 $aRyan$b John 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815188403321 996 $aThe green thread$94070975 997 $aUNINA