Author: Claude Wilson WardlawPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719003318
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Essays on Form in Plants
Author: Claude Wilson WardlawPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719003318
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Plants and Literature
Author: Randy LaistPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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. Randy Laist is Associate Professor of English at Goodwin College. He is the author of Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels and the editor of Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series. He has also published dozens of articles on literature, film, and pedagogy.
Goethe's Essay on the Metamorphosis of Plants
Author: Rudolph GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metamorphosis
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Cellular Differentiation in Plants
Author: Claude Wilson WardlawPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Essay on the Geography of Plants
Author: Alexander von HumboldtPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226360687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church. The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldt’s return, and first among them was the 1807 “Essay on the Geography of Plants.” Among the most cited writings in natural history, after the works of Darwin and Wallace, this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation. Covering far more than its title implies, it represents the first articulation of an integrative “science of the earth, ” encompassing most of today’s environmental sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication.
Art Forms in the Plant World
Author: Karl BlossfeldtPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486249902
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Originally intended as reference for his work as architect, sculptor, and teacher, Blossfeldt's exquisite sharp-focus photo studies of plant form — leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils and twigs — won acclaim with publication of the 1928 edition of this book. 120 full-page black-and-white plates. Original introduction. Publisher's Note. Captions.
Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects
Author: WattsPRIZE ESSAYS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND
Author: HENRY MACKENZIEPrize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
Author: Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, EdinburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Author: John Pitkin NORTON