Plant Poetics : Literary Forms and Functions of the Vegetal /
Plant Poetics explores the forms and functions of the vegetal across a broad body of literature. From Homer to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and from Jamaica Kincaid to Esther Kinsky, the contributions to this volume trace plants in literary works from around the world. Based on nuanced theoretical and...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
Series:
Critical Plant Studies ;
10.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025
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Call Number: PK6530
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Joela Jacobs, Isabel Kranz, and Solvejg Nitzke
- part 1: Vegetal Forms
- 1 "Imagine a Green Plant Shooting Up from Its Root": Goethe's Vegetal Poetics
- Michael Bies
- 2 Towards a Literary Botanical Approach: Katrina Kalda's The Country of Trees without Shadows
- Rachel Bouvet, Stephanie Posthumus, and Noémie Dubé
- 3 Tree Trunks in Motion: "Cinematic Style" and Plant Poetics in Alfred Döblin's "Murder of a Buttercup" and Mountains Oceans Giants
- Oliver Völker
- part 2: Arboreal Poetics
- 4 The Deep Time of Life: Narrative Speed as Expression of Arboreal Time Scales in Richard Powers's The Overstory
- Eva Axer
- 5 From Tree Talk to Forest Thinking: Richard Powers's The Overstory and Annie Proulx's Barkskins
- Susan McHugh
- 6 Writing Trees and Chasing Spirits: Marion Poschmann's and Esther Kinsky's Third Nature Poetics
- Helga G. Braunbeck
- part 3: Plant Potentials
- 7 When Plants Attack: Ancient Sallies in the War on Weeds
- Rebecca Armstrong
- 8 The Poetics of Plants: Performing Speech, Performing Self, Performing Green
- Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika
- 9 Vegetal Art and Activism in Frans Krajcberg's Sculptures
- Patrícia Vieira
- Index.