Trees in Literatures and the Arts: HumanArboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Embracing the intersectional methodological outlook of the environmental humanities, the contributors to this edited collection explore the entanglements of cultures, ecologies, and socio-ethical issues in the roles of trees and their relationships with humans through narratives in literature and art. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Notes Introduction Note Bibliography Part I: Human–Tree Kinship Chapter 1: On Becoming Tree: An Alter-native, Arbo-real Line of Flight in World Literatures in English Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: Pacific Perspectives of the Anthropocene: Trees and Human Relationships The fa Tree of Tonga Kuleana: Responsibility, Privilege, and Duty The ‘Ōhia Lehua Tree of Hawai’i Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: Becoming-botanic: Vegetal Affect and Ecological Grief in Deborah Levy’s Swimming Home and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian Introduction Etc: Rhythm and Repetition Oikos: Symplasm and Society Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: Russian Bodies, Russian Trees: Examples of Interconnections between the Tree of the Motherland and the Soviet People Introduction Derevo Rodiny: Andrej Platonov’s Tree of the Motherland Derevo Rodiny or Bož’e Derevo Derevo Rodiny: An Animated Movie Two Trees of the Motherland Conclusion Note Bibliography Part II: Spiritual Trees Chapter 5: Trees as the Masters of Monks: Some Observations on the Role of Trees in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers Trees as Teachers Trees as Participants One More Function of Trees Note Bibliography Chapter 6: The Ash Tree as “unwobbling pivot” in Pound’s Early and Late Poetry Introduction Juvenile Trees: “La Fraisne,” “The Tree,” and “A Girl” The Mythical “Yggdrasail” Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Seamus Heaney’s Arboreal Poetry The Deforestation of Ireland Mad Sweeney and Ireland’s Forests Taking Shelter in the Trees Trees, Absences, and Luminous Emptiness Tree. Cosmic Tree. No Tree. Bibliography Chapter 8: Between Ecology and Ritual: Images of New Zealand Trees in Grace, Finlayson, Hilliard, and Sargeson Notes Bibliography Chapter 9: The Tree that Therefore I Am: Humans, Trees, and Gods in Cosimo Terlizzi’s Cinema Trees and Philosophies Martin Buber’s Dialogical Philosophy Cosimo Terlizzi’s Cinema Notes Bibliography Part III: Trees in/and Literatures Chapter 10: Flora J. Cooke’s Tree Stories: Progressive Education and Nature in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States A Pioneer of Progressive Education in the United States Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children: Tree Stories for Primary School Education Tree Stories: Transformation and/or Improvement via Education Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: Talking Trees in Amazonian “Novels of the Jungle”1 The Vortex The Jungle Canaima Notes Bibliography Chapter 12: Gardens of Hell, Trees of Death: For a Poetics of Urban Nature in the Lyrics of George Bacovia Bacovia’s Modernism: Cities, Gardens, and Trees Gardens of Hell, Trees of Death Of Men and Trees Notes Bibliography Chapter 13: The Poetization of the Exotic in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature : Nikolaj Gumilëv’s Palm Tree Notes Bibliography Part IV: Trees in the Arts Chapter 14: Mother Sequoia: Waiting for an Imperceptible Enlightenment among Millennial Trees Notes Bibliography Chapter 15: Performing with Spruce Stumps and Old Tjikko: On the Individuality of Trees Individuality or personhood of trees The Spruce on Harakka The Spruce Stumps in Little Jan’s Wood Old Tjikko on Fulufjället Notes Bibliography Chapter 16: Tuning and Being Tuned by a Patch of Boreal Forest: Works from the Boreal Poetry Garden, Newfoundland, Canada Notes Bibliography Part V: Trees and Time Chapter 17: Tree Photography, Arboreal Timescapes, and the Archive in Richard Powers’ The Overstory Introduction Clicking and Mourning: Capturing Extinction with Photography Blindness and the Archive: Images and Voices Timescapes, Dendrochronology, and Memory Notes Bibliography Chapter 18: Family Trees: Mnemonics, Genealogy, Identity, and Cultural Memory From the Desire to Know and the Necessity to Tell From the Desire to Tell and the Necessity to Know From the Right to Belong and the Necessity to Know From the Right to Know and the Necessity to Belong Knowing—Telling—Belonging Notes Bibliography Index About the Editors About the Contributors