Enchanted, stereotyped, civilized : garden narratives in literature, art and film.

Ein neuwertiges Exemplar. - Gardens have been a crucial part in mythology and literature. Throughout English literature for example, the idea of a garden is a recurrent image; these images largely stem from the story of the Garden of Eden, which is found in the Genesis, the first book of the Bible. In the vast library of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means � for example a conceptual idea, a real or imagined place, and a place of action. Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature and can in sum be seen as civilized and �shaped� and therefore domesticated nature. The present volume will discuss the topic of the garden in different theoretical contexts such as ecological, botanical, literary, filmic, art, historical and cultural ones. The single contributions investigate the representations of and the interconnections between gardens and the above named domains over a wide timescale, with consideration of how gardens are represented and used as symbols. - Contents: Feryal Cubukcu and Sabine Planka: Enchanted, Stereotyped, Civilized: Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film - A Short Introduction -- LITERARY GARDENS -- Megan Kitching: The Genius in the Garden: Sacred Places and Cultivated Spaces in Literature -- Dawod Kbazaie and Sara Khalili Jahromi: Garden Imagery and Connection of Three Worlds in Hafez's Poetry -- D�r�Mangard and Miriam Strieder: Paradise Perverted? The Garden as the Nucleus of Ungodliness in Gottfried's of Strassburg "Tristan" -- Milena Romero Allu�'Annihilating all that's made / To a green Thought in a green Shade' - "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell and the Myth of Creation -- Argha Kumar Banerjee: "The poetry of the earth is never dead": The Garden & British Romantic Poetry -- Jake Arthur: Garden Forms and Politics in Early Modern English Literature -- Leah Edens: Redefining Archetypes: The Agency of Gardens and Women in Female-Authored Novels across the English Enlightenment -- Zennure K�semann: Henry David Thoreau: Free Mind in the Garden -- Todd Landon Barnes: "Nature's Journeymen": Cultivating Political Desires in New York City's Shakespeare Gardens -- Adrian Tait: Care and Cultivation in the Landscape Gardens of Jane Austen: An Ecocritical R�aluation of Intra-Acting Components -- Eaurena Tsudama: The Garden of Empire: Estate Improvement, British Imperialism, and Slavery in "Mansfield Park" -- Ann Beebe: 'My flower garden has taught me that lesson': Gardens in E.D.E.N. Southworth's Novels of the 1850s -- Very al Cubukcu: Looking for the Queen of the Desert in Mesopotamian Gardens -- Emanuela Ettorre: Between Heaven and Hell: Biblical Allusions and Darwinian Inter- textuality in the Gardens of "Tess of the D'urbervilles" -- Stephanie A. Marcellus: Garden Escapes in Great Expectations and the Victorian Periodical Press -- Garry MacKenfie: Unearthing Traditions and Cultivating Hybridity: Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta -- Sandy Valery Eunau: Back to Paradise - The Garden as Utopia and Mythical Place in Margaret Atwood's Novel "The Year of the Flood" -- Rose Simpson: "By The Waters Of Babylon" - Vicki Baum's Garden of Exile -- G�pah Tikry: Garden of the Subconscious in Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" -- Christian Tagsold: Japanese Gardens as Realms of the Incomprehensible in Postcolonial Literature -- GARDENS IN FAIRY TALES AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE -- Denise Burkhard: Agency and Spatial Transformation in Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" -- Kaitlin Downing: The Social Context of Gardening in Burnett's "The Secret Garden" -- Sai Prasanna: Enchanted Gardens: Eco-consciousness in Environmental Picture Books -- Anna Budelli: Teaching Gardening to Children: an Analysis of Gertrude Jekyll's "Children and Gardens" -- GARDENS IN ART HISTORY, PHOTOGRAPHY AND CULTURE -- Fabio Colonnese: The Labyrinth as an Architectural Mediator: Vredeman De Vries and the Geometric Garden in The Netherlands -- Alba Romano Pace: The Garden-Labyrinth and his Chimers as Metaphor of the Unconscious and of Artistic Creation in the Surrealist Painting -- Marguerite Gibson: Between Worlds: The Juxtaposition of the Australian Colonial Garden -- Esther Stutz: The Garden Behind the Sitter. Painted Garden Backdrops in Early Bourgeoisie Portrait Photography -- GARDENS IN FILMS AND VIDEO GAMES -- Sabine Planka: From Romantic Gnarled Trees and Ruins to Seductive Heterotopias: Tim Burton's Gardens and Landscapes -- Tammie Jenkins: Visualizing Cultural Spaces: (Re) Imagining Southern Gothicism in the Film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) -- Lily Chi: Prospects in the Garden at Marienbad -- Susanne Schamowski: Vegetable Gardening between the Private and the Political, Past and Present. Space and Place in Richard Laxton's Grow Your Own, or: On the Importance of Growing Shark Fin Melon -- Stefan Sch�berlein: Garden Warfare - Videogaming's Green Thumb. ISBN 9783826064449