Media, modernity, and dynamic plants in early 20th century German culture / by Janet Janzen.
In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants , Janet Janzen traces the motif of the “dynamic plant” through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature an...
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| Superior document: | Critical plant studies: philosophy, literature, culture, v. 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Plant Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 Flying Plants: Imaginary Media as a Model for Representing the Plant Soul in Kurd Lasswitz’s Sternentau: Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond (1909)
- 2 Animating Glass: Representing the Elusive Plant Soul in Paul Scheerbart’s “Flora Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle” (1909)
- 3 Empathetic Media: Film and the “Gestures” of Plants in Das Blumenwunder (1926)
- 4 The Radical Other: The Metamorphosis of Humans and Animals into Plants in Gustav Meyrink’s “Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella” (1905)
- 5 The Plant Bites! Deviant Plants in Nosferatu and Alraune as Metaphors for Social Instability in Weimar Culture
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.