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Author Abram, Christopher, author.

Title Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / Christopher Abram.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Under the sign of nature.
Summary "This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecological catastrophe today"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Old Norse literature -- History and criticism.
Old Norse literature.
Mythology, Norse.
Mythology, Norse.
Ecology in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Disasters in literature.
Disasters in literature.
Apocalypse in literature.
Apocalypse in literature.
Environmental disasters.
Environmental disasters.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Title Ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature
ISBN 9780813942285 (electronic book)
0813942284 (electronic book)
9780813942261
0813942268
9780813942278
0813942276