"This volume gives a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises in the Nordic countries"--
Creative Responses to Environmental Crises and Aesthetics in Nordic Art and Literature gives a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises in the Nordic countries. Showcasing examples of environmental literature, visual art and entertainment from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the chapters of the volume reflect the complex interplay of the local, regional and global in environmental art and activism. Authored by established and notable scholars in the field of Nordic ecocriticism, the volume highlights the complex and vital role art, literature, and other creative activities assume in times of crisis.
This volume gives a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises in the Nordic countries.
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This volume gives a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises in the Nordic countries.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Katarina Leppänen and Aušur Ašalsteinsdóttir
Chapter 1: Complex Aesthetics
Aušur Ašalsteinsdóttir
Chapter 2: Hush and Listen to Things You Cant Hear: Audibility, Anxiety, and
Resonance in Sara Sųlbergs Literary Work
Katarina Leppänen
Chapter 3 Happiness in the Age of Disaster: Eco Mourning and Climate
Melancholia in Danish 2010s Eco Poetry
Torsten Bųgh Thomsen
Chapter 4: The History of a River: Narrative Agency in Mette Karlsviks
Varmį
Georgiana Bozīntan
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 snęfellsjökuls rawlings and Blåskjell i biocide
Chapter 7: The Carrier Bags of Ecocriticism: Nordic Small Presses of the
Twenty-First Century
Ana Stanievi
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 Hįkonardóttir
Sigrśn Inga Hrólfsdóttir
Index
About the Contributors
Aušur Ašalsteinsdóttir is research lector and director of the University of Icelands Research Centre.
Katarina Leppänen is professor of intellectual history at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg.
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