Trees in Literatures and the Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trees in Literatures and the Arts write by Carmen Concilio. This book was released on 2021-04-21. Trees in Literatures and the Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Tree Climbing Cure
The Tree Climbing Cure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tree Climbing Cure write by Andy Brown. This book was released on 2022-12-15. The Tree Climbing Cure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them. Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing. Bringing together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth, folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about women climbing trees. Discussing, among others, the literary works of Margaret Atwood; Charlotte Bronte; Geoffrey Chaucer; Angela Carter; Kiran Desai; and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as work by artists such as Peter Doig; Paula Rego; and Goya, this book stands out as an almost encyclopedic examination of cultural representations of this quirky and ultimately restorative pastime.
Modernism and the Anthropocene
Modernism and the Anthropocene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism and the Anthropocene write by Jon Hegglund. This book was released on 2021-09-27. Modernism and the Anthropocene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world.
Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature write by Melanie Duckworth. This book was released on 2023-10-04. Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children’s and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous perspectives. While plants tend to be backgrounded as of less narrative interest than animals and humans, this book, in conversation with the field of critical plant studies, approaches them as living beings worthy of attention. Australia is home to over 20,000 species of native plants – from pungent Eucalypts to twisting mangroves, from tiny orchids to spiky, silvery spinifex. Indigenous Australians have lived with, relied upon, and cultivated these plants for many thousands of years. When European explorers and colonists first invaded Australia, unfamiliar species of plants captured their imagination. Vulnerable to bushfires, climate change, and introduced species, plants continue to occupy fraught but vital places in Australian ecologies, texts, and cultures. Discussing writers from Ambelin Kwaymullina and Aunty Joy Murphy to May Gibbs and Ethel Turner, and embracing transnational perspectives from Ukraine, Poland, and Aotearoa New Zealand, Storying Plants addresses the stories told about plants but also the stories that plants themselves tell, engaging with the wide-ranging significance of plants in Australian children’s and Young Adult literature.
The End of the Anthropocene
The End of the Anthropocene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of the Anthropocene write by Michael J. Gormley. This book was released on 2021-06-28. The End of the Anthropocene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene, Michael J. Gormley examines literary imaginings of the Anthropocene’s end and the Astropocene’s beginning—when humans are no longer bound to the blue planet on which we evolved. Gormley analyzes literary images of human tracks on Earth, the Moon, and Mars to characterize the late-stage Anthropocene and to explore humanity’s role in the universal ecosystem. The End of the Anthropocene uses a predictive and paradigmatic model of ecocriticism, examining science fiction works as interplanetary nature narratives.
