Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature

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

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abram, Christopher (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
Series:	Under the sign of nature.
Subjects:	Old Norse literature > History and criticism. Mythology, Norse. Ecology in literature. Disasters in literature. Apocalypse in literature. Environmental disasters. man-made disasters. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German. LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > General. Ecology in literature Apocalypse in literature Disasters in literature Environmental disasters Mythology, Norse Old Norse literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.