Evergreen Ash : Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature /

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"This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecological catastrophe today"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abram, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Old Norse literature.
Mythology, Norse.
Environmental disasters.
Disasters in literature.
Apocalypse in literature.
Ecology in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
man-made disasters.
Catastrophes ecologiques.
Fin du monde dans la litterature.
Catastrophes dans la litterature.
Mythologie nordique.
Litterature vieux norroise > Histoire et critique.
Old Norse literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Ash
  • Ecocriticism and Old Norse
  • Remembering and dismembering a transcorporeal cosmos
  • The nature of world in a world without nature: heimr, verold, jor?
  • Tree-people and people-trees
  • Trees, vines, and the golden age of settlement
  • The asir and the anthropocene
  • Reading Rangarok at the end of the world.

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