03438nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001600185072002300201072001500224100008200239245008700321250001800408264007900426300003300505336002600538337002600564338003600590347002400626505039500650520149301045650002502538650002502563650003302588650002502621650002502646650003802671710003402709773002602743776003602769776003602805776003602841856004602877912001402923912001402937999001702951978-3-031-60541-3DE-He21320251030113252.0cr nn 008mamaa241031s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316054139978-3-031-60541-37 a10.1007/978-3-031-60541-32doi 4aPN98.E36 7aDSA2bicssc 7aLIT0060002bisacsh 7aDSA2thema1 aGraham, Jean.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98683414aThe Sentient Tree in Speculative Fictionh[electronic resource] /cby Jean Graham.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 150 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter One: Introduction. Into the Woods: Metaphor, Mythology, Science -- Chapter Two: Metaphor, Monster, and/or Tree? -- Chapter Three: Mythology and Desire -- Chapter Four: Trans-Corporeality, Pain, and Movement -- Chapter Five: Communication and Community -- Chapter Six: Cooperation and Agency -- Chapter Seven: Competition and Revenge -- Conclusion: Intelligent Trees and Alien Trees.  a"A wonderful, timely, and necessary book that explores the tangled roots of mythology, literature, and culture to illuminate humanity’s complex relationship with the environment. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched." — Abi Curtis, Professor of Creative Writing, York St John University, UK This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to tTwentieth -century and contemporary literature, which draws on this earlier work. Graham's research includes literary and scientific works on vegetal consciousness and sentience, and applies this ecocritical lens in her analysis of various works of literature, television, and film. This book aims to illustrate how sentient trees in speculative fiction help readers better understand that other beings on Earth and/or the Universe are motivated and able to act on goals and desires, even when those goals may not coincide with those of humans. Jean Graham is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, USA, where she teaches teaching early modern British literature, dystopian literature, and speculative fiction. In addition to scholarly work on early modern literature, she has published about Star Trek: Next Generation in Journal of Popular Culture. She has also published on C. S. Lewis in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Mythlore, and Children’s Literature. 0aEcocriticism.944023 0aEuropean literature. 0aAmericaxLiteratures.96679914aEcocriticism.94402324aEuropean Literature.24aNorth American Literature.9668002 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303160540608iPrinted edition:z978303160542008iPrinted edition:z978303160543740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60541-3  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c64613d64613