Essays on Form in Plants
Author : Claude Wilson Wardlaw
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9780719003318
Author : Claude Wilson Wardlaw
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9780719003318
Author : Rudolph Goethe
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Metamorphosis
ISBN :
Author : Randy Laist
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9401209995
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 : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2002-05-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429935073
Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals. With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays, "Civil Disobedience" and "Walking," along with lesser-known masterpieces such as "Wild Apples," "The Last Days of John Brown," and an account of his 1846 journey into the Maine wilderness to climb Mount Katahdin, an essay that ends on a unique note of sublimity and terror. Hyde diverges from the long-standing and dubious editorial custom of separating Thoreau's politics from his interest in nature, a division that has always obscured the ways in which the two are constantly entwined. "Natural History of Massachusetts" begins not with fish and birds but with a dismissal of the political world, and "Slavery in Massachusetts" ends with a meditation on the water lilies blooming on the Concord River. Thoreau's ideal reader was expected to be well versed in Greek and Latin, poetry and travel narrative, and politically engaged in current affairs. Hyde's detailed annotations clarify many of Thoreau's references and re-create the contemporary context wherein the nation's westward expansion was bringing to a head the racial tensions that would result in the Civil War.
Author : George Fownes
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Manures
ISBN :
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226360687
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 : William Darlington
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Botany
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Howard Estey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773511354
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 : Maṇḍayam A. Nārāyaṇa Aiyaṅgār
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Mythology, Indic
ISBN :
Author : Philip Lovell Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 1845
Category :
ISBN :