The Green Thread - Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Release date:	December 2015
Editors:	Patricia Vieira • Monica Gagliano • John Charles Ryan
Contributors:	Tom Bristow • Pansy Duncan • Andrew Howe • Michael Marder • Laurent Mignonneau • Guinevere Narraway • Alan Read
Dimensions:	237 x 158 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	326
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-1059-2
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Plant life: general > General
LSN:	1-4985-1059-0
Barcode:	9781498510592

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