Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / / Christopher Abram
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 839.609 |
| Soggetto topico: | Old Norse literature - History and criticism |
| Mythology, Norse | |
| Disasters in literature | |
| Apocalypse in literature | |
| Environmental disasters | |
| 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Evergreen ash |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-4228-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793220203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Under the sign of nature.