Botany as the Path to Awareness, or the Flower as Grail in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields

In the novel Icefields by Canadian novelist Thomas Wharton, plants are more thanincidental elements. Vegetation appears as a living form of writing in nature that enablesmen and women to understand life and their relationship to the world. It can also beseen as the Grail that the alpinist sets out t...

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Main Author: Françoise Besson
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment; Universidad de Alcalá de Henares 2011-01-01
Series:Ecozon@
Online Access:http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/157/423