Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment : Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures

Anna-Karin Jonasson

ISBN 10: 1498561926 / ISBN 13: 9781498561921

Edité par Lexington Books, 2020

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781498561921

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment : Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures
• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1498561926
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781498561921
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 15 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 15 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 427 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos des auteurs

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.

Jørgen Bruhn is professor of comparative literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden and director of Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies.

Jenna Coughlin is Associate Professor of Norwegian and Director of Nordic Studies at St. Olaf College, USA.