Christopher Abram 
Evergreen Ash [EPUB ebook] 
Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature

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Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will no longer support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland, a nation whose volcanic activity places it perpetually on the brink of a world-changing environmental catastrophe. As the first full-length ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature, Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a profoundly strange, marginal, and at times hostile environment.

Christopher Abram here contends that Ragnarok offers an uncanny foreshadowing of our current global ecological crisis—the era of the Anthropocene. Ragnarok portends what may happen when a civilization believes that nature can be mastered and treated only as a resource to be exploited for human ends. The enduring power of the Ragnarok myth, and its relevance to life in the era of climate change, lies in its terrifying evocation of a world in which nothing is what it was before, a world that is no longer home to us—and, thus, a world with no future. Climate change may well be our Ragnarok.


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Prologue: Evergreen Ash

1. Ecocriticism and Old Norse

2. Remembering and Dismembering a Transcorporeal Cosmos

3. The Nature of World in a World without Nature: Heimr, Verold, Jorð

4. Tree-People and People-Trees

5. Trees, Vines, and the Golden Age of Settlement

6. The Æsir and the Anthropocene

7. Reading Ragnarok at the End of the World

Conclusion

A propos de l’auteur


Christopher Abram is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Myths of the Pagan North: The Gods of the Norsemen

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 254 ● ISBN 9780813942285 ● Taille du fichier 1.8 MB ● Maison d’édition University of Virginia Press ● Lieu Charlottesville ● Pays US ● Publié 2019 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6818419 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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