This edited collection examines the ecological and cultural dynamics of humanarboreal kinship in environmental literature and art.

Bibliographic Details

Other Authors:	Concilio, Carmen (Editor), Fargione, Daniela 1965- (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London Lexington Books [2021]
Series:	Ecocritical theory and practice
Subjects:	Ökologie > Motiv Umwelt > Motiv Baum > Motiv Kunst Literatur Human-plant relationships Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	DE-188
Summary:	This edited collection examines the ecological and cultural dynamics of humanarboreal kinship in environmental literature and art. Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Notes -- Introduction -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part I: Human-Tree Kinship -- Chapter 1: On Becoming Tree: An Alter-native, Arbo-real Line of Flight in World Literatures in English -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Pacific Perspectives of the Anthropocene: Trees and Human Relationships -- The fa Tree of Tonga -- Kuleana: Responsibility, Privilege, and Duty -- The 'Ōhia Lehua Tree of Hawai'i -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Becoming-botanic: Vegetal Affect and Ecological Grief in Deborah Levy's Swimming Home and Han Kang's The Vegetarian -- Introduction -- Etc: Rhythm and Repetition -- Oikos: Symplasm and Society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Russian Bodies, Russian Trees: Examples of Interconnections between the Tree of the Motherland and the Soviet People -- Introduction -- Derevo Rodiny: Andrej Platonov's Tree of the Motherland -- Derevo Rodiny or Bož'e Derevo -- Derevo Rodiny: An Animated Movie -- Two Trees of the Motherland -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part II: Spiritual Trees -- Chapter 5: Trees as the Masters of Monks: Some Observations on the Role of Trees in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers -- Trees as Teachers -- Trees as Participants -- One More Function of Trees -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Ash Tree as "unwobbling pivot" in Pound's Early and Late Poetry -- Introduction -- Juvenile Trees: "La Fraisne," "The Tree," and "A Girl" -- The Mythical "Yggdrasail" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Seamus Heaney's Arboreal Poetry -- The Deforestation of Ireland -- Mad Sweeney and Ireland's Forests -- Taking Shelter in the Trees -- Trees, Absences, and Luminous Emptiness -- Tree. Cosmic Tree. No Tree. -- Bibliography.
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Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 297 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781793622808