02278nam 2200577 450 991046761960332120200520144314.00-8139-4228-4(CKB)4100000007545983(MiAaPQ)EBC5639114(OCoLC)1082862286(MdBmJHUP)muse73197(Au-PeEL)EBL5639114(CaPaEBR)ebr11648398(EXLCZ)99410000000754598320190206d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEvergreen ash ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature /Christopher AbramCharlottesville ;London :University of Virginia Press,2019.1 online resource (255 pages)Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism0-8139-4227-6 0-8139-4226-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Under the sign of nature.Old Norse literatureHistory and criticismMythology, NorseDisasters in literatureApocalypse in literatureEnvironmental disastersElectronic books.Old Norse literatureHistory and criticism.Mythology, Norse.Disasters in literature.Apocalypse in literature.Environmental disasters.839.609Abram Christopher962103MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467619603321Evergreen ash2181367UNINA