Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature

Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir is research lector and director of the University of Iceland’s Research Centre. Katarina Leppänen is professor of intellectual history at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionKatarina Leppänen and Auður AðalsteinsdóttirChapter 1: Complex AestheticsAuður AðalsteinsdóttirChapter 2: Hush and Listen to Things You Can’t Hear: Audibility, Anxiety, and Resonance in Sara Sølberg’s Literary WorkKatarina LeppänenChapter 3 Happiness in the Age of Disaster: Eco Mourning and Climate Melancholia in Danish 2010‘s Eco Poetry Torsten Bøgh ThomsenChapter 4: The History of a River: Narrative Agency in Mette Karlsvik’s VarmáGeorgiana BozîntanChapter 5: CO2, The Poetic CompoundKaroliina LummaaChapter 6: Ecopoetry and Postmodern Dilemmas: Bengt Emil Johnson as an Ecopoetic PredecessorJohan AlfredssonNORD by a snæfellsjökuls rawlings and Blåskjell i biocideChapter 7: The Carrier Bags of Ecocriticism: Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First CenturyAna StanićevićChapter 8: Cute but Murderous: Dark Environmental Aesthetics in Nordic Video Games Xin LiuChapter 9: Ethics in a Broken World: Can TV-Shows Help Us Navigate the Climate Breakdown?Ole Martin SandbergChapter 10: Metaphors of Change in Swedish Creative Futures Utopias Camilla Brudin BorgChapter 11: Weaving a Mass Movement: The Art of Hildur HákonardóttirSigrún Inga HrólfsdóttirIndexAbout the Contributors