Plants and literature : essays in critical plant studies.
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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 viability of animalian motility and heterotrophy as evolutionary strategies, as well as the identity of organic life as such . Plants surprise us by combining the appearance of harmlessness and familiarity with an underlying strangeness. The otherness of vegetal life poses a challenge to our ethical, philosophical, and existential categories and tests the limits of human empathy and imagination. At the same time, the resilience of plants, their adaptability, and their integration with their habitat are a perennial source of inspiration and wisdom. Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies examines the manner in which literary texts and other cultural products express our multifaceted relationship with the vegetable kingdom. The range of perspectives brought to bear on the subject of plant life by the various authors and critics represented in this volume comprise a novel vision of ecological interdependence and stimulate a revitalized sensitivity to the relationships we share with our photosynthetic brethren.
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1 online resource (270 pages) : color illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. :
9789401209991 :
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Karl Blossfeldt : Die Rezensionen 1926-1945 /
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Karl Blossfeldts Pflanzenaufnahmen sind kanonische Bilder der Fotografie der Moderne. Als 1928 sein Buch "Urformen der Kunst" erschien, dürften die Reaktionen nicht nur den Fotografen, sondern auch seinen Verleger und Galeristen überrascht haben. Es erschienen rasch sehr zahlreiche Besprechungen und das keineswegs beschränkt auf die Organe der Kunst und Fotografie, sondern bis hin zu hochspezialisierten Fachzeitschriften für Architektur, Bekleidung, Biologie, Blumendekoration, aber auch Drechslerei, Ethnologie, Holzwirtschaft und Volkskunde. Die Edition dokumentiert in reicher Auswahl die Rezensionen seiner Bücher und Ausstellungen bis 1945 und bietet so ein unerläßliches Kompendium zum Studium dieses Klassikers der Moderne.
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1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783846769652