Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment (eBook, PDF)

Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures
Redaktion: Hennig, Reinhard; Degerman, Peter; Jonasson, Anna-Karin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978757639
• Artikelnr.: 74848494

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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