Lexington Books
Pages: 326
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-1059-2 • Hardback • December 2015 • $149.00 • (£115.00)
978-1-4985-1061-5 • Paperback • April 2019 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-1-4985-1060-8 • eBook • December 2015 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies at Georgetown University.
Monica Gagliano is research associate professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Western Australia.
John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in communications and arts at Edith Cowan University.
Introduction. Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John C. Ryan
Section I. Disseminating Plants
Chapter 1. What’s Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept, Michael Marder
Chapter 2. Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature’s Wisdom, Monica Gagliano
Chapter 3. Tolkien’s Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth, John Charles Ryan
Chapter 4. What’s Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication, Stefan Rieger
Chapter 5. “Wild Memory” as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries, Museums, and Seed Banks, Tom Bristow
Section II. Politicizing Plants
Chapter 6. Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson’s “A Dying Race”, Jennifer Schell
Chapter 7. Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon, Patrícia Vieira
Chapter 8. Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era, Andrew Howe
Chapter 9. Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral, Gioia Woods
Chapter 10. Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence’s Lantana, Guinevere Narraway and Hannah Stark
Section III. Performing Plants
Chapter 11. Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed, Branch, Flower, Graig Uhlin
Chapter 12. Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window, Pansy Duncan
Chapter 13. The Art of Human to Plant Interaction, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, and
Florian Weil
Chapter 14. The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices and Endangered Uses, Alan Read
Contributors
“Over fifty years ago Rachel Carson wrote in Silent Spring that our “attitude toward plants is a singularly narrow one.” This book offers readers in the humanities and sciences a more broadly conceived and sophisticated interdisciplinary conversation about plants. More significantly, the book reinvigorates a human dialogue with plants that has been displaced by modern cultural attitudes toward the vegetal world.”
— Mark C. Long, Keene State College