Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens by Shelley Saguaro (English) H

Description: Garden Plots by Shelley Saguaro Illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. This book, informed by postcolonial, formalist, feminist, and psychoanalytic theories, includes such chapters as: Botanical Modernism, Natural History and Postmodern Grafting, Postcolonial Poetics of Landscape, and Coevolutionary Histories-the Poetics of a Paradox. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Shelley Saguaros unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. Gardens in fiction do not simply represent a familiar theme, Saguaro contends, but are bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues. As with literary forms, so too are gardens subject to transformations. Encompassing a wide array of twentieth- and twenty-first century authors, including Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, Don DeLillo, and Philip K. Dick, this books preoccupations are signalled in the evocatively titled chapters: Botanical Modernisms; Natural History and Postmodern Grafting; Postcolonial Landscapes; How Does Your Cyber Garden Grow?; and Coevolutionary Histories - the Poetics of a Paradox. Informed by postcolonial, formalist, feminist, and psychoanalytic theories, Garden Plots is a must read for all those alive to the space gardens inhabit in the literary landscape. Author Biography Shelley Saguaro is Head of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her teaching and research have focussed on North American writing, and she is the editor of Psychoanalysis and Woman (2000), a collection of psychoanalytic writings. Table of Contents Contents: Introduction: The politics and poetics of gardens; Botanical modernisms; Natural history and postmodern grafting; Postcolonial landscapes; How does your cyber-garden grow?; Conclusion: coevolutionary histories - the poetics of a paradox; Select Bibliography; Index. Review ... some subtle and carefully worked observations. Garden History Saguaro offers a valuable, readable perspective on the politics of landscape and identity in recent history and the global reach of even small, anonymous plots. Cultural Geographies Long Description Shelley Saguaros unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. Gardens in fiction do not simply represent a familiar theme, Saguaro contends, but are bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues. As with literary forms Details ISBN0754637530 Author Shelley Saguaro Year 2006 ISBN-10 0754637530 ISBN-13 9780754637530 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2006-10-28 Subtitle The Politics and Poetics of Gardens Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.9109364 Illustrations Includes 12 b&w illustrations Pages 264 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Short Title Garden Plots Language English Media Book DOI 10.1604/9780754637530 UK Release Date 2006-10-28 AU Release Date 2006-10-28 NZ Release Date 2006-10-28 Alternative 9781138258785 Audience Undergraduate Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134440211;

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