TY - BOOK AU - Janzen,Janet Lindeblad TI - Media, modernity, and dynamic plants in early 20th century German culture T2 - Critical plant studies: philosophy, literature, culture SN - 9004327177 AV - PT405 .J344 2016 U1 - 830.9/364 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill Rodopi KW - German literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Plants in literature KW - Littérature allemande KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Plantes dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Flying Plants: Imaginary Media as a Model for Representing the Plant Soul in Kurd Lasswitz's Sternentau: Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond (1909) -- Animating Glass: Representing the Elusive Plant Soul in Paul Scheerbart's "Flora Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle" (1909) -- Empathetic Media: Film and the "Gestures" of Plants in Das Blumenwunder (1926) -- The Radical Other: The Metamorphosis of Humans and Animals into Plants in Gustav Meyrink's "Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella" (1905) -- The Plant Bites! Deviant Plants in Nosferatu and Alraune as Metaphors for Social Instability in Weimar Culture -- Conclusion N2 - "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."-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1940452 ER -