Perspectives on ecocriticism : local beginnings, global echoes / edited by Ingemar Haag, Karin Molander Danielsson, Marie Öhman and Thorsten Päplow.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Haag, Ingemar, editor.

Päplow, Thorsten M., 1976- editor.

Molander Danielsson, Karin, 1958- editor.

Öhman, Marie, 1965- editor.

Conference Name:

Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries ; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Conference) (2017 : Väterås, Sweden)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism--Scandinavia--Congresses.

Ecocriticism.

Scandinavia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference 'Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow' held in Västerås, Sweden, in 2017, organized by the research group Ecocritical Forum at Mälardalen University. The conference, which was an attempt to survey local ecocritical activities, transcended Nordic boundaries, engaging scholars from Europe and the United States. This expansion from the local to the global mirrors the subject of the conference: ecocriticism, a cross-disciplinary field of research in the intersection of environmental issues and cultural expressions. The chapters here engage with topical issues such as the Anthropocene, sustainability in education, and civilizational critique, as well as schools of thought such as materialism, dark ecology, and animal studies.

This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference 'Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow' held in V�aster�as, Sweden, in 2017, organized by the research group Ecocritical Forum at M�alardalen University. The conference, which was an attempt to survey local ecocritical activities, transcended Nordic boundaries, engaging scholars from Europe and the United States. This expansion from the local to the global mirrors the subject of the conference: ecocriticism, a cross-disciplinary field of research in the intersection of environmental issues and cultural expressions. The chapters here engage with topical issues such as the Anthropocene, sustainability in education, and civilizational critique, as well as schools of thought such as materialism, dark ecology, and animal studies.

Contents:

Introduction / Ingemar Haag, Karin Molander Danielsson, Marie Öhman, Thorsten Päplow

The anthropocene- visions and visualizations. Fire and ice: Thinking film, climate change, and (stealth) environmental humanities with Paolo Sorrentino's Youth (2015) / Elena Past

Rhetoric and imagery of the anthropocene / Björn Billing

Nature, literary ecology and changed desire in Aksel Sandemose's The seasons and The walls of Jericho / Anna Forssberg

Is all that is new therefore good? The Swedish author Lars Gyllensten and ecocritical tendencies of today / Camilla Brudin Borg

Water as motif, metaphor, and matter in Kerstin Ekman's novel The spring / AnnaCarin Billing

More than sand? Landscape and movement in Stig Dagerman's Island of the doomed / Johanna Lindbo

Dark ecology and the non-human- theory and poetry. The dark turn / Erik van Ooijen

"The overwhelming indifference of Ingen:" On the dark ecopolitics of Aase Berg and Johannes Heldén / Sofia Roberg

Discerning the ghostly voices of animals / Amelie Björk

Education- Sustainability in course design. Hållbarhet i Språkutbildning / Petra Platen

The use of educational design research for the application of ecocritical discourse analysis to an English teacher degree programme / Emile Bellewes

Civilizational critique- modernisty and apocalypse. When the map appears more real than the land: D.H. Lawrence and the Aporia of ecocriticism / Adrian Tait

Deconstructing natural and post-natural binaries: Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, and the places of unfitness / Emanuela Ettorre

A living home: Towards an ecocritical understanding of the critique of modernity in Swedish fiction at the turn of the 20th century / Andreas Hedberg

The ecocriticism of the future: Research as radical political action / Rut Elliot Blomqvist

The end- of what? The beginning- or what? Conceptions of the apocalypse with a few remarks on Mary Shelley's The last man, Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Ingemar Haag

Contributor biographies

Editor biographies.

ISBN:

9781527532007

1527532003

OCLC:

1090905808

Publisher Number:

99983585948