Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / Christopher Abram.
Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / Christopher Abram.
Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / Christopher Abram.
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Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
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G 2019/5329
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English
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Physical content
x, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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 Rang...
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Publisher
Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
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Virginia
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecological catastrophe today"-- Provided by publisher.
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Evergreen ash : ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature / Christopher Abram.
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Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/5329
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74VKV5lODyeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5lODyeX
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ISBN
0813942268 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780813942261 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0813942276 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780813942278 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
DDC
839.609
MMS ID
991024272696402626
