Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath
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2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5521-7 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5521-7 (ISBN)
This book investigates the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath under the theoretical guidance of critical plant studies to disclose these two poets’ botanical awareness of the vegetal agency and their attentiveness to the ethical standing of plants in human life.
Dilek Bulut Sarikaya scrutinizes human-plant entanglement in the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath from the perspective of critical plant studies, which is committed to restoring the lost connection between humans and plants. The author offers a theoretical reading of Hardy and Plath’s poetry, focusing specifically on how plants are depicted by these two poets as self-conscious and emotional individuals who are turned into vulnerable victims of humans’ exploitative practices. The author develops a critical argument on the necessity of eradicating humans’ anthropocentric mindsets, categorizing plants as sessile, inert objects and replaces it with a plant-centric world view, perceiving plants as instantly active biological organisms who exist with their botanical accuracy rather than with the impositions of humans’ metaphoric meanings upon them.
Dilek Bulut Sarikaya scrutinizes human-plant entanglement in the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath from the perspective of critical plant studies, which is committed to restoring the lost connection between humans and plants. The author offers a theoretical reading of Hardy and Plath’s poetry, focusing specifically on how plants are depicted by these two poets as self-conscious and emotional individuals who are turned into vulnerable victims of humans’ exploitative practices. The author develops a critical argument on the necessity of eradicating humans’ anthropocentric mindsets, categorizing plants as sessile, inert objects and replaces it with a plant-centric world view, perceiving plants as instantly active biological organisms who exist with their botanical accuracy rather than with the impositions of humans’ metaphoric meanings upon them.
Dilek Bulut Sarikaya is associate professor of English literature at Cappadocia University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- Critical Plant Studies
Chapter 1: Plant Sensitivity and Environmental Movement in Britain and the United States
- Emergence of the British Environmentalism and the Rise of Botanical Studies
- American Environmental Movement and Plant Consciousness
Chapter 2: Human-Plant Entanglement in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath
- Human-Plant Interaction in the Poetry of Hardy and Plath
Chapter 3: Vegetal Agency in the Plant Poetics of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath
- Plant Agency and Intentionality in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Plant Studies |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 404 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-5521-3 / 1666955213 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-5521-7 / 9781666955217 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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