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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Ser |
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Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature -- PART I: Botanical Fascinations -- 1. A Relational Poetics of Plant-Human Interactions: Contrasting the Picturebooks of Cicely Mary Barker and Elsa Beskow -- 2. Stamens and Pistils in the Same Flower: Queer Posthuman Performativity of Plants in the Finnish Fairy Tale "Pessi ja Illusia" -- 3. Aristotle on Plants: Life, Communion, and Wonder |
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PART II: Plants in Folklore and Fantasy -- 4. Come into the Garden, Alice: Rude Flowers, Dream-Rushes, Aphasic Woods, and Other Plants in Lewis Carroll's Nonsense Worlds -- 5. Fern Blossom and Lilibala: Magical Plants in Serbian Children's Fantasy Fiction -- 6. Vegetal Magic: Agnieszka's Journey to the Understanding of the Vegetal Other in Naomi Novik's Uprooted -- PART III: Arboreal Embraces -- 7. Arboreal and Maternal Desires: Trees and Mothers in recent Australian Middle-Grade Fiction -- 8. Arboreal Entanglements: Childrenforest and Deforestation in Ecopoetry by Children |
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9. "I felt like a tree lost in a storm"-The Process of Entangled Knowing, Becoming, and Doing in Beatrice Alemagna's Picturebook Un grande giorno di niente (2016) -- 10. From Chamomiles to Oaks: Agency and Cultivation of Self- Awareness -- PART IV: Plant Agency and Activism -- 11. Vegetal Individuals and Plant Agency in Twenty-First Century Children's Literature -- 12. Vegetable Violence: The Agency, Personhood, and Rhetorical Role of Vegetables in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's The 52-Storey Treehouse |
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13. The Vegetal Modality of Resistance in Children's Books by/for Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guanio-Uluru, Lykke
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| ISBN |
9781000469141 |
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100046914X |
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