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Autore |
Abram Christopher |
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Titolo |
Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / / Christopher Abram |
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Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Collana |
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Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Old Norse literature - History and criticism |
Mythology, Norse |
Disasters in literature |
Apocalypse in literature |
Environmental disasters |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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"-- |
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