Description |
1 online resource (x, 240 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
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Under the sign of nature.
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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.
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Old Norse literature. |
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Mythology, Norse.
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Mythology, Norse. |
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Ecology in literature.
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Ecology in literature. |
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Disasters in literature.
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Disasters in literature. |
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Apocalypse in literature.
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Apocalypse in literature. |
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Environmental disasters.
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Environmental disasters. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Title |
Ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature |
ISBN |
9780813942285 (electronic book) |
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0813942284 (electronic book) |
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9780813942261 |
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0813942268 |
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9780813942278 |
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0813942276 |
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