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  1. How I Became a Tree
    Author: Roy, Sumana
    Published: 2021; ©2017
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven

    Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I: A Tree Grew inside My Head -- Tree Time -- Women as Flowers -- The Kindness of Plants -- The Woman as Tree -- The Silence of Trees -- Part II: I Paint Flowers So They Will... more

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    Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I: A Tree Grew inside My Head -- Tree Time -- Women as Flowers -- The Kindness of Plants -- The Woman as Tree -- The Silence of Trees -- Part II: I Paint Flowers So They Will Not Die -- Drawing Trees -- Making Leaves -- The Literature of Trees -- Tree Sculpture -- Photographing Trees -- Part III: See the Long Shadow that is Cast by the Tree -- Portrait of a Tree -- A Brief History of Shadows -- X-raying Plants -- Feeding Light to Trees -- Becoming a Shadow -- Part IV: Supposing I Became a Champa Flower Rabindranath Tagore's Garden -- Studying Nature -- Part V: I Want to Do with You What Spring Does with the Cherry Trees -- Having Sex with a Tree -- Loving Trees -- Part VI: One Tree is Equal to Ten Sons -- Plants as Children -- The Curious Botanist -- Gardens and Adultery -- Part VII: Lost in the Forest -- Lost in the Forest -- The Religion of the Forest -- Wild Men and Lost Girls -- Part VIII: Under the Greenwood Tree -- Sitting Under a Tree -- The Buddha and the Bodhi Tree -- Part IX: The Tree is an Eternal Corpse -- The Death of Trees -- The Rebirth of Trees -- How I Became a Tree -- Epilogue Notes and References -- Bibliography

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300262681; 030026268X
    Subjects: Trees; Human ecology; Conduct of life; Slow life movement; Arbres; Écologie humaine; Morale pratique; Slow life (Mouvement); human ecology; ethics (philosophical concept); trees (woody plants); NATURE / Plants / Trees; Slow life movement; Conduct of life; Human ecology; Trees
    Other subjects: Roy, Sumana
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (0 p)
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  2. Exterranean
    extraction in the humanist Anthropocene
    Author: Usher, Phillip John
    Published: 2019; ©2019
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York

    Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows... more

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    Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean eschews the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823284245; 0823284247; 9780823284238; 0823284239
    Edition: First edition
    Series: Meaning systems
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Human ecology; Écocritique; Écologie humaine; human ecology; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Literary; Ecocriticism; Human ecology
    Other subjects: Anthropocene; Early Modern; Exterranean; Extraction; Extractivism; Humanism; Latour; Mining; Posthumanism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Cover; EXTERRANEAN; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Incipit: From Sub- to Exterranean; I: Terra Global Circus; 1. Terra Has Standing; 2. Terre's Brilliant Mines; 3. Terra Globalized; II: Welcome to Mineland; 4. Sickly Mountainsides; 5. Demonic Mines; III: Hiding in Exterranean Matter; 6. Geomedia; 7. Saline Intimacies; Explicit; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
  3. Narrating the mesh
    form and story in the Anthropocene
    Author: Caracciolo, Marco
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

    "This book argues that humans have a natural, biologically driven preference for organic form in syntax and text"-- more

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    "This book argues that humans have a natural, biologically driven preference for organic form in syntax and text"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813945842; 0813945844
    Series: Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Fiction; Climatic changes in literature; Human ecology; Écocritique; Narration; Roman - Histoire et critique; Climat - Changements, dans la littérature; Écologie humaine; human ecology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature; Climatic changes in literature; Ecocriticism; Fiction; Human ecology; Narration (Rhetoric); kirjallisuudentutkimus; antroposeeni; Literary criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Literary criticism; Critiques littéraires
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 228 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction : Narrative and interlocking forms -- 1. Complex narrative in the Anthropocene -- 2. The form of the butterfly -- 3. Negative strategies and nonlinear temporality in postapocalyptic fiction -- 4. Five ways of looking at nonhuman actants -- 5. Minding the Anthropocene -- 6. Metaphorical patterns in Anthropocene fiction -- 7. Metaphor, scale, and the value of conceptual trouble -- Coda : Thinking beyond literary form.