The green thread : dialogues with the vegetal world / / edited by Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John Ryan

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 580.1
• Soggetto topico: Plants (Philosophy)
• Persona (resp. second.): VieiraPatricia; GaglianoMonica; RyanJohn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 PLANTS ; 6 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 ; 14 The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices, and Endangered UsesIndex; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The green thread
• ISBN: 1-4985-1060-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815188403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice