Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature [Hardcover]

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.

Au?ur A?alsteinsd?ttir is research lector and director of the University of Iceland's Research Centre in ?ingeyjarsveit.
Katarina Lepp?nen is professor of intellectual history at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Katarina Lepp?nen and Au?ur A?alsteinsd?ttir
Chapter 1: Complex Aesthetics
Au?ur A?alsteinsd?ttir
Chapter 2: Hush and Listen to Things You Can't Hear: Audibility, Anxiety, and Resonance in Sara S?lberg's Literary Work
Katarina Lepp?nen
Chapter 3 Happiness in the Age of Disaster: Eco Mourning and Climate Melancholia in Danish 2010's Eco Poetry
Torsten B?gh Thomsen
Chapter 4: The History of a River: Narrative Agency in Mette Karlsvik's Varm?
Georgiana Boz?ntan
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 angela sn?fellsj?kuls rawlings and Bl?skjell i biocide
Chapter 7: The Carrier Bags of Ecocriticism: Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century
Ana Stanicevic
Chapter 8: CutlCI