This work presents ecocritical research on literature, film and other media from northern Europe. Examining the role of culture, history and society in the forming of Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, the anthology offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.
This work presents ecocritical research on literature, film and other media from northern Europe. Examining the role of culture, history and society in the forming of Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, the anthology offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.
Reinhard Hennig is associate professor of Nordic literature at the University of Agder. Anna-Karin Jonasson is junior lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Mid Sweden University and PhD candidate at Åbo Akademi University. Peter Degerman is senior lecturer of comparative literature, Mid Sweden University.
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Introduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter Degerman Part I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives 1. "The Safest Place on Earth": Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in Scandinavia Lauren E. LaFauci 2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh's I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence Anna Sofia Rossholm 3. "Visionary Cartography": The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen's Mount Copenhagen Jørgen Bruhn 4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik's Mandø Katie Ritson 5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomäki's The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate Fiction Toni Lahtinen Part II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments 6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the Anthropocene Jenna Coughlin 7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas' Fuglane and Stina Aronson's Hitom himlen Beatrice G. Reed 8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian Fiction Hanna Samola 9. Interspecies Encounters - An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson's Ishavspirater Nina Goga Part III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North 10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna's Hårda tider Frederike Felcht 11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sápmi 1907-1916 Kari Haarder Ekman 12. 'Extractivism' in Sápmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt's Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander's Silence Photographs Cheryl J. Fish
Introduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter Degerman Part I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives 1. "The Safest Place on Earth": Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in Scandinavia Lauren E. LaFauci 2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh's I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence Anna Sofia Rossholm 3. "Visionary Cartography": The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen's Mount Copenhagen Jørgen Bruhn 4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik's Mandø Katie Ritson 5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomäki's The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate Fiction Toni Lahtinen Part II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments 6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the Anthropocene Jenna Coughlin 7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas' Fuglane and Stina Aronson's Hitom himlen Beatrice G. Reed 8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian Fiction Hanna Samola 9. Interspecies Encounters - An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson's Ishavspirater Nina Goga Part III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North 10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna's Hårda tider Frederike Felcht 11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sápmi 1907-1916 Kari Haarder Ekman 12. 'Extractivism' in Sápmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt's Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander's Silence Photographs Cheryl J. Fish
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