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Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture

Series: Critical Plant Studies Volume: 2
By: Janet Janzen(Author)
212 pages
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture
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About this book

In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the "dynamic plant" through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function.

Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Flying Plants: Imaginary Media as a Model for Representing the Plant Soul in Kurd Lasswitz’s Sternentau: Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond (1909)
Chapter 2: Animating Glass: Representing the Elusive Plant Soul in Paul Scheerbart's Flora Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle (1909)
Chapter 3: Empathetic Media: Film and the “Gestures” of Plants in Das Blumenwunder (1926)
Chapter 4: The Radical Other: The Metamorphosis of Humans and Animals into Plants in Gustav Meyrink's Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella (1905)
Chapter 5: The Plant Bites!: Deviant Plants in Nosferatu and Alraune as Metaphors for Social Instability in Weimar Culture

Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Janet Janzen, Ph.D. (2014), is an instructor of German Studies and is currently affiliated with the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has given many presentations on nature and plants in media.

Series: Critical Plant Studies Volume: 2
By: Janet Janzen(Author)
212 pages
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
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