Tag: Vegetal

Free Download Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka (German Jewish Cultures) by Joela Jacobs
English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 0253071976, 0253071984 | True EPUB | 285 pages | 0.5 MB
Animal, Vegetal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grotesque. This short prose form challenges the norms of being human and being accepted as such by society in exaggerated and satirical ways. Between the Kaiser’s and Hitler’s Reichs, the genre’s irreverent comedy and criticism sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers.

Free Download Edward S. Casey, "Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal "
English | ISBN: 0231213441 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world. How do plants as sessile, growing, decaying, and metamorphosing beings shape the places they inhabit, and how are they shaped by them? How do human places interact with those of plants―in lived experience; in landscape painting; in cultivation and contemplation; in forests, fields, gardens, and cities?

Free Download Dilek Bulut Sarikaya, "Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath "
English | ISBN: 1666955213 | 2024 | 146 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1517 KB
Dilek Bulut Sarıkaya 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.

Free Download Edward S. Casey, "Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal "
English | ISBN: 023121345X | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 9 MB