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Author(s): Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira (eds.)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: Only short sinopsis of every chapter, provided by the Editors!
Pages: 39
City: Minneapolis, London
Tags: LCSH; Plant cellular signal transduction; Plant cell interaction; Plant ecophysiology; Chemical ecology; Plant communication; Plant ecology; Philosophy of Botany; Biosphere; Coevolution; Flower phylogeny; Leaves philogeny; New Age;
Introduction vii Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira
Part I. Science
1. The Language of Plant Communication (and How It Compares to Animal
Communication) 3 Richard Karban
2. Speaking in Chemical Tongues: Decoding the Language of Plant Volatiles 27
Robert A. Raguso and André Kessler
3. Unraveling the “Radiometric Signals” from Green Leaves 62 Christian Nansen
4. Breaking the Silence: Green Mudras and the Faculty of Language in Plants 84
Monica Gagliano
Part II. Philosophy
5. To Hear Plants Speak 103 Michael Marder
6. What the Vegetal World Says to Us 126 Luce Irigaray
7. The Intelligence of Plants and the Problem of Language: A Wittgensteinian
Approach 136 Nancy E. Baker
8. A Tree by Any Other Name: Language Use and Linguistic Responsibility 155
Karen L. F. Houle
9. What Vegetables Are Saying about Themselves 173 Timothy Morton
Part III. Literature
10. The Language of Flowers in Popular Culture and Botany 193 Isabel Kranz
11. Phytographia: Literature as Plant Writing 215 Patrícia Vieira
12. Insinuations: Thinking Plant Politics with The Day of the Triffids 234 Joni
Adamson and Catriona Sandilands
13. What the Plant Says: Plant Narrators and the Ecosocial Imaginary 253 Erin
James
14. In the Key of Green? The Silent Voices of Plants in Poetry 273 John C. Ryan
Acknowledgments 297
Contributors 299
Index 303
