The Green Thread by Stefan Rieger
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The leading metaphor of the book-the green thread, echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase the green fuse-carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, the green thread is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, the green thread links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal-a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants.-
Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
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Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871
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Modernism and the Anthropocene
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Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature
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Canine Death in Canonical American Fiction
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Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature
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Ecotheology in the Humanities
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The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest
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Aging Studies and Ecocriticism
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Confronting Climate Crises through Education
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Gender and Environment in Science Fiction
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Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education
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The End of the Anthropocene
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Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
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Environmental Postcolonialism
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Avenging Nature
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An Island in the Stream
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The Ecopolitics of Consumption
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Ecocriticism of the Global South
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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Dark Nature
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Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India
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Eco-Concepts
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Religious Horror and the Ecogothic
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Romantic Ecocriticism
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Masculinity and Place in American Literature since 1950
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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape
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Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction
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Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
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Water in Medieval Literature
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Ecocriticism in Taiwan
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Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency
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Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America
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Victorian Ecocriticism
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Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati
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Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
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The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature
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New International Voices in Ecocriticism
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Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French
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Ecofeminism in Dialogue
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Seeing Animals after Derrida
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Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature
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The Human–Animal Boundary
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Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel
Over fifty years ago Rachel Carson wrote in Silent Spring that our attitude toward plants is a singularly narrow oneThis 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
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781498510615 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498510612 |
| Title | The Green Thread |
| Author | John Ryan |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory And Practice |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2019-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 306 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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