Media, modernity, and dynamic plants in early 20th century German culture /

Media, modernity, and dynamic plants in early 20th century German culture /

In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants , Janet Janzen traces the motif of the "dynamic plant" through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in lit...

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Main Author: Janzen, Janet Lindeblad.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2016.

Series: Critical Plant Studies 2.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

Subjects:

1900-1999
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Plants in literature.
German literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PT405 .J344 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Flying Plants: Imaginary Media as a Model for Representing the Plant Soul in Kurd Lasswitz's Sternentau: Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond (1909)
  • 2 Animating Glass: Representing the Elusive Plant Soul in Paul Scheerbart's "Flora Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle" (1909)
  • 3 Empathetic Media: Film and the "Gestures" of Plants in Das Blumenwunder (1926)
  • 4 The Radical Other: The Metamorphosis of Humans and Animals into Plants in Gustav Meyrink's "Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella" (1905)
  • 5 The Plant Bites! Deviant Plants in Nosferatu and Alraune as Metaphors for Social Instability in Weimar Culture
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.