TY - JOUR
AU - Sivils, Matthew Wynn
AB - BOOK REVIEW The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World. Edited by Patrıcia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan. Lanham: Lexington, 2016. 306 pp. Cloth $95.00. eBook $94.99. Ambitiously conceived and admirably developed, The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is a timely and thoughtful addition to the nascent ecocritical field of Plant Studies. As the editors write in their introduction, this book contributes to the critical “shift from plants-as-lifeless-objects to plants-as-living-agents,” while it also “exemplifies the richness of the growing field of plant studies and paves the way for further investigations into the crucial role of the bo- tanical world in human culture” (xxi). The fourteen essays that comprise the book each present an import- ant contribution to this overall goal, and the editors have deftly organ- ized the text into three main sections. The first, entitled “Disseminating Plants,” contains essays that, as the editors assert, “explore new territo- ries where the re-conceptualization of vegetal beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible” (xi). The goal of the second section, “Politicizing Plants,” is—as the title suggests—to engage the concept of the plant as a political entity, with essays ad- dressing questions of how the 
TI - The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World. Edited by Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan
JO - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/isw057
DA - 2016-10-25
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-green-thread-dialogues-with-the-vegetal-world-edited-by-patr-cia-9RrUphi9hm
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EP - 643
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