Author: Claude Wilson Wardlaw
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719003318
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Randy Laist
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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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.

Author: Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226360687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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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.

Author: Frederick Orpen Bower
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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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.

Author: George Fownes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manures
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Rudolph Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metamorphosis
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: Ferdinand von Mueller
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Ralph Howard Estey
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773511354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Based on exhaustive research and interviews, this is the first referenced history of mycology and plant pathology in Canada. It will be of specific interest to plant breeders and pathologists, mycologists, entomologists, horticulturists, students of the sciences, and historians.

Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230334295
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...still in danger of being killed by frost or accident. When winter finally set in, the little plat seemed to have been inhabited only by three big red-roots and two small ones and by one ragweed. The remains of these six plants stood stiff and assertive in the winds; but if one looked closer he saw the remains of many lesser plants, each "yielding seed after his kind," each one, no doubt, having impressed something of its stature and form upon its seeds for resurrection of similar qualities in the following year. All this variation must have been the result of struggle for existence, for it is not conceivable that in less than two feet square of soil there could have been other conditions sufficiently diverse to have caused such marked unlikenesses; and I shall allow the plat to remain without defilement, that I may observe the conflict in the years to come, and I shall also sow seeds from some of the unlike plants. From all these facts, I am bound to think that physical environment and struggle for life are both powerful causes of variation in plants which are born equal. Still, the reader may say, like Weismann, that these differences were potentially present in the germ, that there was an inherited tendency for the given red-root to grow three feet tall when eightyfive other plants were grown alongside of it in From two of the red-root (Amarantus retrojlexus) plants of different stature, seeds were sown in pans in the greenhouse. One of the plants was twelve inches high and had a spread of branches of nine inches. The other was twenty-four inches high and thirty inches broad. The seeds from each were thoroughly ripe and the plants were matured; yet of the seeds from the smaller plant only a few had sufficient vitality to...