Trees in Literatures and the Arts (eBook, PDF)

HumanArboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene
Redaktion: Concilio, Carmen; Fargione, Daniela

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Embracing the intersectional methodological outlook of the environmental humanities, the contributors to this edited collection explore the entanglements of cultures, ecologies, and socio-ethical issues in the roles of trees and their relationships with humans through narratives in literature and art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881880583
• Artikelnr.: 74851094

Autorenporträt

Carmen Concilio is associate professor at the University of Turin. Daniela Fargione is assistant professor at the University of Turin.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Human-Tree Kinship
Chapter 1: On Becoming-Tree. An Alter-native, Arbo-real Line of Flight in
World Literatures in English
Chapter 2: Pacific Perspectives of the Anthropocene: Trees and Human
Relationships
Chapter 3: Becoming-botanic: Vegetal Forms of Mourning in Deborah Levy's
Swimming Home and Han Kang's The Vegetarian
Chapter 4: Russian Bodies, Russian Trees: Examples of Interconnections
between the Tree of the Motherland and the Soviet People
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
Chapter 6: The Ash-Tree as 'Unwobbling Pivot' in Pound's Early and Late
Poetry
Chapter 7: Seamus Heaney's Arboreal Poetry
Chapter 8: Between Ecology and Ritual. Images of New Zealand Trees in
Grace, Finlayson, Hilliard and Sargeson
Chapter 9: The Tree that Therefore I Am. Humans, Trees and Gods in Cosimo
Terlizzi's Cinema
Part III Trees in/and Literatures
Chapter 10: Flora J. Cooke's Tree Stories: Progressive Education and Nature
in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States
Chapter 11: Talking Trees in Amazonian "Novels of the Jungle"
Chapter 12: Gardens of Hell, Trees of Death: For a Poetics of Urban Nature
in the Lyrics of George Bacovia
Chapter 13: The Poetization of the Exotic in Early 20th Century Russian
Literature: Nikolaj Gumilëv's Palm Tree
Part IV Trees in the Arts
Chapter 14: Mother Sequoia. Awaiting an Imperceptible Enlightenment Among
Millennial Trees Chapter 15: Performing with Spruce Stumps and Old Tjikko.
On the Individuality of Trees
Chapter 16: Tuning and Being Tuned by a Patch of Boreal Forest: Works from
the Boreal Poetry Garden, Newfoundland, Canada
Part V Trees and Time
Chapter 17: Tree Photography, Arboreal Timescapes and the Archive in
Richard Powers's The Overstory
Chapter 18: Family Trees: Mnemonics, Genealogy, Identity and Cultural
Memory