Posthuman plants
Subtitle: rethinking the vegetal through culture, art, and poetry
By: John Charles Ryan
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing; Common Ground Research Networks
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Champaign, Illinois
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781612298221; 9781612298238
Subjects: Biogeography; Botany in literature; Human-plant relationships; Ethnobotany
Other titles: Rethinking the vegetal through culture, art, and poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where have all the boronia gone? A posthumanist model of environmental mourning; title: Toward an ethics of reciprocity: ethnobotanical knowledge and medicinal plants as cancer therapies; title: Natural heritage conservation and eco-digital poiesis: a Western Australian example; title: The virtual and the vegetal: creating a living biocultural heritage archive through digital storytelling approaches; title: Ecodigital art: democratization, globalization, and interdisciplinarity; title: Plant-art: the virtual and the vegetal in contemporary performance and installation art; title: "A very striking parasite": the cultural history of the Western Australian Christmas tree; title: Australian ecopoetics past, present, future: what do the plants say?; title: Dharmic ecologies down under: an ecocritical perspective on Buddhist symbolism in Australian poetry; title: In the key of green? The silent voices of plants in the poetry of Gluck and Bletsoe; title: Tolkien's sonic trees and perfumed herbs: plant intelligence in Middle-Earth; title: Sense of place and sense of taste: Thoreau's botanical aesthetics; title: Epilogue: Nature writing for the love of plants and place: a posthuman practice.