Trees in literature and the arts : humanarboreal perspectives in the Anthropocene / edited by Carmen Concilio and Daniela Fargione.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Concilio, Carmen, editor.

Fargione, Daniela, 1965- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees in literature.

Trees in art.

Human-plant relationships.

Trees--Religious aspects.

Trees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I. Human-Tree Kinship

On Becoming-Tree : an Alter-native, Arbo-real Line of Flight in World Literatures in English / Carmen Concilio

Pacific Perspectives of the Anthropocene: Trees and Human Relationships / Emanuela Borgnino and Gaia Cottino

Becoming-botanic: Vetetal Forms of Mourning in Deborah Levy's Swimming Home and Han Kang's The Vegetarian

Russian Bodies, Russian Trees: Examples of Interconnections between the Tree of the Motherland and the Soviet People / Igor Piumetti

Part II. Spiritual Trees

Trees as the Masters of Monks : Some Observations on the Role of Trees in The Sayings of the Deser Fathers / Bernard Łukasz Sawicki

The Ash-Tree as 'Unwobbling Pivot' in Pound's Early and Late Poetry / Stefano Maria Casella

Seamus Heaney's Arboreal Poetry / Irene De Angelis

Between Ecology and Ritual : Images of New Zealand Trees in Grace, Finlayson, Hilliard and Sargeson / Paola Della Valle

The Tree that Therefore I Am : Humans, Trees and Gods in Cosimo Terlizzi's Cinema / Alberto Baracco

Part III. Trees in/and Literatures

Flora J. Cooke's Tree Stories: Progressive Education and Nature in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States / Bahar Gürsel

Talking Trees in Amazonian "Novels of the Jungle" / Patricia Vieira

Gardens of Hell, Trees of Death: For a Poetics of Urban Nature in the Lyrics of George Bacovia / Roberto Merlo

The Poetiztion of the Exotic in Early 20th Century Russian Literature: Nikolaj Gumilëv's Palm Tree / Giulia Baselica

Part IV. Trees in the Arts

Mother Sequoia : Awaiting an Imperceptible Englightment Among Millennial Trees / Tiziano Fratus

Performing with Spruce Stumps and Old Tjikko : On the Individuality of Trees / Annette Arlander

Tuning and Being Tuned by a Patch of Boreal Forest: Works from the Boreal Poetry Garden, Newfoundland, Canada / Marlene Creates

Part V. Trees and Time

Tree Photography, Arboreal Timescapes and the Archive in Richard Powers's The Overstory / Daniela

Family Trees: Mnemonics, Genealogy, Identity and Cultural Memory / Eva-Sabine Zehelein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Trees in literature and the arts

ISBN:

9781793622808

1793622809

Publisher Number:

40030538733

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.