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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813488603321

Autore

Abram Christopher

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019

ISBN

0-8139-4228-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages)

Collana

Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism

Disciplina

839.609

Soggetti

Old Norse literature - History and criticism

Mythology, Norse

Disasters in literature

Apocalypse in literature

Environmental disasters

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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