Plants and literature : essays in critical plant studies.

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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Main Author: Laist, Randy.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: [Amsterdam] : Editions Rodopi, 2013.

Series: Critical Plant Studies 1.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Plants in literature.

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Call Number: PN56.P52 L35 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction /
  • Randy Laist
  • The Progress of Vegetation: Subversion and Vegetarianism in Mansfield Park /
  • Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol
  • Plants and the Problem of Authority in the Antebellum U.S. South /
  • Lynne Feeley
  • 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 /
  • Akemi Yoshida
  • This is Your Brain on Wheat: The Psychology of the Speculator in Frank Norris' The Pit /
  • Graham Culbertson
  • Refusing Form: A Reading of Art, Americanism, and Feminism through Plant Imagery in Susan Glaspell's The Verge /
  • Stacey Artman
  • Surviving the City: Resistance and Plant life in Woolf's Jacob's Room and Barnes' Nightwood /
  • Ria Banerjee
  • The Smell of Cottonwood Leaves: Plants and Tayo's Healing in Silko's Ceremony /
  • Ubaraj Katawal
  • The Bible's Paradise and Oryx and Crake's Paradice: A Comparison of the Relationships between Humans and Nature /
  • Rhona Trauvitch
  • Iconic/Ironic Greenery: The Cultural Cultivation of Plants in Brecht Evens' The Making Of /
  • Charlotte Pylyser
  • A Return to Transcendentalism in the Twentieth Century: Emerging Plant-Sympathy in The Little Shop of Horrors /
  • Stephanie Lim
  • Mean Green Machine: How the Ecological Politics of Alan Moore's Reimagination of Swamp Thing Brought Eco-consciousness to Comics /
  • Hindi Krinsky
  • Reproducing Plant Bodies on the Great Plains /
  • Aubrey Streit Krug
  • Contributors
  • Index.