Plant Horror Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fictio
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APPROACHES TO THE MONSTROUS VEGETAL IN FICTION AND FILM
Plant Horror
Dawn Keetley • Angela Tenga Editors
Plant Horror Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
Editors Dawn Keetley Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Angela Tenga Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, Florida, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-57062-8 ISBN 978-1-137-57063-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57063-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960682 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Westend61/Markus Keller Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
Abstracts
1. Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants Horrifying? Dawn Keetley Evoking Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s influential 1996 essay “Monster Culture (Seven Theses),” this Introduction maps out six theses suggesting why plants—defined broadly as vegetation, flowers, bushes, trees—have figured as monstrous within horror fiction and film: (1) Plants embody an absolute alterity; (2) Plants lurk in our blindspot; (3) Plants menace with their wild, purposeless growth; (4) The human harbors an uncanny constitutive vegetal; (5) Plants will get their revenge; and (6) Plant horror marks an absolute rupture of the known.
2. The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction Cinema Agnes Scherer This chapter explores parallels between early modern tendril-arabesques and those plant monsters that send forth tendrils in modern cinematic horror. In both contexts, a beautiful and horrifying impression is grounded in the ambivalence evok
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