Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
Abstract: In Goethe's works, plants abound; as such, they offer many insights for this critical plant studies project on plants and humans in the early Anthropocene. From Werther and die Novelle to Hermann und Dorothea, Faust and his scientific writings, we find three categories of plant depictions: first as embodiments of green vitality that elicit emotional responses; second, as humanly-shaped cultivations or horticultural realms; and third, we find inklings of the promise of actual vegetal agency establishing the very world in which we human beings and all other animals live. In Goethe's wide-ranging botanical ideas, the modern collision between the world-shaping power of industrial humanity and oflong-term green plant power begins to take shape.
Publisher
Peter Lang
City
Berlin
ISSN
2365-645X
ISBN
978-3-631-8538-4
Repository Citation
Sullivan, Heather I., "Goethes Pflanzen und das ,,Dunkle Griin"" (2022). Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research. 196.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mll_faculty/196
Publication Information
Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt