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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Critical plant studies ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.