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

Title
Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / Christopher Abram.
Author
Abram, Christopher
Publication
  • Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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TextUse in library JFE 19-6214Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
x, 240 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecological catastrophe today"--
Series Statement
Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Uniform Title
Under the sign of nature.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 19-6214
ISBN
  • 0813942268
  • 9780813942261
  • 0813942276
  • 9780813942278
  • 9780813942285 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2018041484
OCLC
1057298921
Author
Abram, Christopher, author.
Title
Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / Christopher Abram.
Publisher
Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Under the sign of nature.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-6214
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