Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment

Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvReinhard Hennig,Anna-Karin Jonasson,Peter Degerman

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Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literature, film, and other forms of cultural expression in relation to the specific circumstances from which they arise.Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures. The contributors examine specifically Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, with a focus on the cultures and literatures of the modern northern European countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, including Sápmi, which is the land traditionally inhabited by the indigenous Sami people.Covering northern European literatures and cultures over a period of more than two centuries, this anthology provides substantial insights into both old and new narratives of nature and the environment as well as intertextual relations, the variety of cultural traditions, and current discourses connected to the Nordic environmental imagination. Case studies relating to works of literature, film, and other media shed new light on the role of culture, history and society in the formation of narratives of nature and the environment, and offer a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-07-06
Mått154 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor258
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498561921

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Djurböcker inom Djur och natur
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Introduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the EnvironmentReinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter DegermanPart I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives1. “The Safest Place on Earth”: Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in ScandinaviaLauren E. LaFauci2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh’s I am Mountain, to Measure ImpermanenceAnna Sofia Rossholm3. “Visionary Cartography”: The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen’s Mount CopenhagenJørgen Bruhn 4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik’s MandøKatie Ritson5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomäki’s The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate FictionToni LahtinenPart II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the AnthropoceneJenna Coughlin7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas’ Fuglane and Stina Aronson’s Hitom himlenBeatrice G. Reed8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian FictionHanna Samola9. Interspecies Encounters – An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson’s IshavspiraterNina GogaPart III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna’s Hårda tiderFrederike Felcht11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sápmi 1907–1916Kari Haarder Ekman12. ‘Extractivism’ in Sápmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt’s Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander’s Silence PhotographsCheryl J. Fish

Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first collection of ecocritical research on northern European literatures written in the English language. . . . [it] is an intriguing and comprehensive collection that makes the complex field of Scandinavian ecocriticism accessible to an Anglophone audience. One can only hope that it will encourage further ecocritical research in Northern European literatures.

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