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Plants and literature : essays in critical plant studies.

Myth, 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 viabil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laist, Randy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Critical plant studies ; 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Myth, 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,
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9789401209991
9401209995
9781306315548
1306315549