Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literatur

This volume gives a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises in the Nordic countries.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Katarina Leppänen and Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir
Chapter 1: Complex Aesthetics
Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir
Chapter 2: Hush and Listen to Things You Can't Hear: Audibility, Anxiety, and Resonance in Sara Sølberg's Literary Work
Katarina Leppänen
Chapter 3 Happiness in the Age of Disaster: Eco Mourning and Climate Melancholia in Danish 2010's Eco Poetry
Torsten Bøgh Thomsen
Chapter 4: The History of a River: Narrative Agency in Mette Karlsvik's Varmá
Georgiana Bozîntan
Chapter 5: CO2, The Poetic Compound
Karoliina Lummaa
Chapter 6: Ecopoetry and Postmodern Dilemmas: Bengt Emil Johnson as an Ecopoetic Predecessor
Johan Alfredsson
NORD by a snæfellsjökuls rawlings and Blåskjell i biocide
Chapter 7: The Carrier Bags of Ecocriticism: Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century
Ana Stani¿evi¿
Chapter 8: Cute but Murderous: Dark Environmental Aesthetics in Nordic Video Games
Xin Liu
Chapter 9: Ethics in a Broken World: Can TV-Shows Help Us Navigate the Climate Breakdown?
Ole Martin Sandberg
Chapter 10: Metaphors of Change in Swedish Creative Futures Utopias
Camilla Brudin Borg
Chapter 11: Weaving a Mass Movement: The Art of Hildur Hákonardóttir
Sigrún Inga Hrólfsdóttir
Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Katarina Leppänen and Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir - Contributions by Katarina Leppänen; Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir; Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir; Johan Alfredsson; Torsten Bøgh Thomsen; Georgiana Bozîntan; Camilla Brudin Borg; Hildur Hákonardóttir; Sigrún Ing

Product details

• Authors: Auur Leppanen Aalsteinsdottir, Katarina Aalsteinsdottir Leppanen
• Assisted by: Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir (Editor), Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir (Editor), Katarina Leppänen (Editor), Katarina Leppänen (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666953039
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-303-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, ART / General, Applied ecology, Conservation of the environment, The arts: general topics