Perspectives on Ecocriticism: Local Beginnings, Global Echoes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527532007)

This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference â oeEcocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow⠝ held in Västerà s, Sweden, in 2017, organized by the research group Ecocritical Forum at Mälardalen University. The conference, which was an attempt to survey local ecocritical activities, transcended Nordic boundaries, engaging scholars from Europe and the United States. This expansion from the local to the global mirrors the subject of the conference: ecocriticism, a cross-disciplinary field of research in the intersection of environmental issues and cultural expressions.

The chapters here engage with topical issues such as the Anthropocene, sustainability in education, and civilizational critique, as well as schools of thought such as materialism, dark ecology and animal studies. The contributions discuss several types of cultural expressions, including film and other visual media, university course design and Nordic, and English language novels and poetry. This volume will attract the interest of readers from a number of different backgrounds, both in the Nordic countries and internationally.

Author: Ingemar Haag
ISBN-10: 1527532003
ISBN-13: 9781527532007
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2019
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.80d