Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought
Editat de Professor Branka Arsicen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501370625
ISBN-10: 1501370626
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501370626
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Proposes a new approach to American 19th-century ecological thinking - and specifically Thoreau - in the service of thinking about the contemporary ecological crisis
Notă biografică
Branka Arsic is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of American Literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. She is the author, most recently, of Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (2016), which was awarded the MLA James Russell Lowell prize for the outstanding book of 2016. She has also written On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (2010), and a book on Melville entitled Passive Constitutions or 7½ Times Bartleby (2007). She co-edited (with Kim Evans) a collection of essays on Melville, entitled Melville's Philosophies (Bloomsbury, 2017) and (with Cary Wolfe) a collection of essays on Emerson, entitled The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths (2010).
Cuprins
Introduction: Thoreau's Vegetal Ontology: The Aerial, the Rootless and the Analogous Branka Arsic (Columbia University, USA)1. Thoreau Experiments with Natural InfluencesJane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University, USA)2. A Material Faith: Thoreau's Terrennial TurnLaura Dassow Walls (Notre Dame University, USA)3. Auto-Heteronomy: Thoreau's Circuitous Return to the Vegetal WorldMichael Marder (University of the Basque Country, Spain)4. Thoreau's Garden PoliticsAntoine Traisnel (University of Michigan, USA) 5. "Wild Thinking" and Vegetal Intelligence in Thoreau's Later WritingsMichael Jonik (Sussex University, UK)6. Green Fire: Thoreau's Forest FigurationMonique Allewaert (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)7. The Riddle of Forest SuccessionMark Noble (Georgia State University, USA)8. Low-Tech Thoreau; or, Remediations of the Human in The Dispersion of SeedsJason Gladstone (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)9. Chastity & Vegetality: On Thoreau's Eco-eroticsCristin Ellis (University of Mississippi, USA)10. Thoreau's Pomontology in 'Wild Apples'Vesna Kuiken (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA)11. 'Wild only like myself': Thoreau at Home with PlantsMary Kuhn (University of Virginia, USA)12. Roots, Seeds, & Thoreauvian Trans-temporality: Poetry in the Common SenseGillian Osborne (Harvard Extension School, USA)
Recenzii
The strongest essays in Dispersion shed valuable fresh light on Thoreau's thinking about the relation-and dis-relation-between human and vegetable.
Dispersion is a beautiful, uncanny, and indispensable work. No brief comment can adequately describe this volume rising and falling between lyric and scholarly modes. Arsic and the contributors she has gathered write-spin-from inside the dark incandescence of Thoreau's ecological thought, weaving us into his occult ontology-simultaneously 'aerial' and 'rooted'-of the vegetal. At the same time, they write with an urgency attuned to the ecological crisis of our time and joyfully alive to the seismic ethical stakes of the questions they pose and, through their tracings, make partly fathomable. Each essay, by turns quiet and alert, rich with strange confluences, opens into a 'flower-truth.' For this is a volume about tending: it stirs strange sympathies for the nonhuman world and a fragile trust in the invisible but sensed forms of entwinement between human and ecological phenomena. In her earlier work Arsic has already brilliantly re-oriented the study of Thoreau's work; here, she re-draws-redrifts-the boundaries of study in the humanities.
A philosophically rich and spirited look at Thoreau's surprising, open encounters with vegetal life and at how instructive the relations between plants and humans can be. Every essay speaks to the vital continuities we share with other life forms, to the ways we impress, influence, and wildly depend on each other, and to the ecological ethics of these dependencies. Dispersion, like the motion of plants Thoreau describes, branches out ambitiously, while staying grounded and sinking in.
The uniformly astute essays Branka Arsic has gathered in this collection render the seed-concepts scattered across Thoreau's sundry writings on vegetal thinking indispensable resources for conceptualizing contemporary ecological problems and will make Dispersion required reading in the growing fields of Thoreau studies and Green Cultural Studies.
With animal studies already a thriving site of scholarly inquiry, Dispersion turns our attention to the quieter potentialities of the vegetal world. This capacious and imaginative collection makes clear how Thoreau laid the ground for this next phase in the ongoing project of thinking beyond our anthropocentric view. Arsic, one of the most inventive voices in this endeavor, has brought together a dream team of emerging and established scholars, whose work here offers a cornucopia of insights along with new roots to track.
Dispersion is a beautiful, uncanny, and indispensable work. No brief comment can adequately describe this volume rising and falling between lyric and scholarly modes. Arsic and the contributors she has gathered write-spin-from inside the dark incandescence of Thoreau's ecological thought, weaving us into his occult ontology-simultaneously 'aerial' and 'rooted'-of the vegetal. At the same time, they write with an urgency attuned to the ecological crisis of our time and joyfully alive to the seismic ethical stakes of the questions they pose and, through their tracings, make partly fathomable. Each essay, by turns quiet and alert, rich with strange confluences, opens into a 'flower-truth.' For this is a volume about tending: it stirs strange sympathies for the nonhuman world and a fragile trust in the invisible but sensed forms of entwinement between human and ecological phenomena. In her earlier work Arsic has already brilliantly re-oriented the study of Thoreau's work; here, she re-draws-redrifts-the boundaries of study in the humanities.
A philosophically rich and spirited look at Thoreau's surprising, open encounters with vegetal life and at how instructive the relations between plants and humans can be. Every essay speaks to the vital continuities we share with other life forms, to the ways we impress, influence, and wildly depend on each other, and to the ecological ethics of these dependencies. Dispersion, like the motion of plants Thoreau describes, branches out ambitiously, while staying grounded and sinking in.
The uniformly astute essays Branka Arsic has gathered in this collection render the seed-concepts scattered across Thoreau's sundry writings on vegetal thinking indispensable resources for conceptualizing contemporary ecological problems and will make Dispersion required reading in the growing fields of Thoreau studies and Green Cultural Studies.
With animal studies already a thriving site of scholarly inquiry, Dispersion turns our attention to the quieter potentialities of the vegetal world. This capacious and imaginative collection makes clear how Thoreau laid the ground for this next phase in the ongoing project of thinking beyond our anthropocentric view. Arsic, one of the most inventive voices in this endeavor, has brought together a dream team of emerging and established scholars, whose work here offers a cornucopia of insights along with new roots to track.