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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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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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505 0 |a The progress of vegetation: subversion and vegetarianism in Mansfield Park -- Plants and the problem of authority in the antebellum U.S. South -- Temptation of fruit: the symbolism of fruit in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and in the works of D.G. Rossetti and J.E. Millais -- This is your brain on wheat: the psychology of the speculator in Frank Norris' The Pit -- Refusing form: a reading of art, Americanism, and feminism through plant imagery in Susan Glaspell's The Verge -- Surviving the city: resistance and plant life in Woolf's Jacob's Room and Barnes' Nightwood -- The smell of cottonwood leaves: plants and Tayo's Healing in Silko's Ceremony -- The Bible's paradise and Oryx and Crake's paradice: a comparison of the relationships between humans and nature -- Iconic/ironic greenery: the cultural cultivation of plants in Brecht Evens' The Making Of -- A return to transcendentalism in the twentieth century: emerging plant-sympathy in The Little Shop of Horrors -- Mean green machine: how the ecological politics of Alan Moore's Reimagination of Swamp Thing brought eco-consciousness to comics -- Reproducing plant bodies on the Great Plains. 
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