Madness in the woods : representations of the ecological uncanny /
Madness in the woods : representations of the ecological uncanny /
Tina-Karen Pusse, Heike Schwarz, Rebecca Downes (eds.).
- Berlin : Peter Lang, 2024
- 244 pages ; 22 cm.
- Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment ; volume 7 .
- Studies in literature, culture, and the environment ; v. 7. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover
Copyright information
Acknowledgement
Contents
Introduction
Section 1
Literature
The Arboreal in Buile Shuibhne 1
The Arboreal in the Irish Tradition
Arboreal Textual Nodes
The Arboreal as Locus Poesis
Concluding Remarks
Works Cited
"A Voice! A Voice!": The Foucauldian Silence of Mr Kurtz
Introduction
The Medieval Wild Man
The Modern Wild Man
"Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine"
Speaking outside the Concept
Lost in Translation
Speaking in Silence
Conclusion
Works Cited A Burst of Magic in the Shadows: The Woods' in Marosa di Giorgio's Poetry
"Everything That Exists Is in Conflict": The Familiar-Unfamiliar Double
A Transplanted Woods from Italy
The Magical Refuge
Shadows in the Woods
The Natal Garden behind the Woods
Works Cited
"Extremely Nervous on This Earth": Fairy Tales and Madness in Edna O'Brien's In the Forest
Refuge from Trauma in the Irish Woods
Negative Romance
Earth-Destroying Fantasies
(Inter)Subjectivity
Unendurable Fantasy
Works Cited Kindling Gatherers and Lost Children: The Peopled Forests of Kerstin Ekman
The Wild, the Alien, the Beautiful
From Terror to Reverence
The Book We Can No Longer Read
The Language of Loss
Darkness and Deepness
Works Cited
Scenes of Mad Pursuits in Allegories by Hawthorne and O'Connor
The Woods of Evil in the Journey of Young Goodman Brown
Commentary on "Young Goodman Brown"
The Woods of Goodness in O'Connor's "A View of the Woods"
Commentary on "A View of the Woods"
Concluding Statement
Works Cited To Wander in the "Shadowed Land": The Fearsome Enchantment of Tolkien's Woods
Introduction
First, Into the (Linguistic) Woods
The Medieval Perspective on Forests and Woodlands
The Bad and the Good
Tolkien and the Woods
The Hobbit: Mirkwood Forest
Epilogue
Works Cited
Section 2
Visual Media
Eco-Sustainability, Nature, Gender and Trees: A Case Study of Avatar, How Harry Became a Tree , and The Tree of Life
Roots of Eco-Feminism and Film Studies
Avatar (2009)
How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
Madness in the Woods: How Harry Became a Tree The Tree of Life (2011)
Concluding Remarks
Works Cited
At the Mercy of the Maddening Mother: Gothic and Medieval Constructions of the Haunted Forest in Modern Horror Films
Mother Nature Maligned: The Gothic Forest in Evil Dead and The Cabin in the Woods
Maleficent Mother Nature: The Forest as Wicked Witch in The Blair Witch Project , Suspiria and The Woods
Works Cited
Eerie Encounters: The Bewitchery of the Dryads in the Film The Woods
Introduction
Forest Schools: Havens of Soul Transformation
In the Woods of Waking Dreams and Living Myth
Since storytelling began, narratives of getting lost in the woods or of choosing to live in the heterotopian space of the woods have remained popular and are, at the time of writing, experiencing a new revival. The theory of ecopsychology supplies a productive paradigm for understanding mental well-being in a cultural landscape suffused with reimaginings of nature as 'unspoiled wilderness'. The eco-psychopathologies presented in the essays in this volume range in origin from medieval literature to contemporary films and online games. The classic romantic or gothic trope of getting lost in the forest, but also its recreational function (forest-bathing) reflect mental states humans develop when they step into the culturally constructed entity of the woodland. These ecocritical analyses present different facets of such encounters.
9783631793398 3631793391
Ecocriticism.
17.80 literary theory: general.
20.10 art and society: general.
Ecocriticism.
Ecocriticism
Literatur
Das Unheimliche
Wald
809.933 / PUS
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover
Copyright information
Acknowledgement
Contents
Introduction
Section 1
Literature
The Arboreal in Buile Shuibhne 1
The Arboreal in the Irish Tradition
Arboreal Textual Nodes
The Arboreal as Locus Poesis
Concluding Remarks
Works Cited
"A Voice! A Voice!": The Foucauldian Silence of Mr Kurtz
Introduction
The Medieval Wild Man
The Modern Wild Man
"Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine"
Speaking outside the Concept
Lost in Translation
Speaking in Silence
Conclusion
Works Cited A Burst of Magic in the Shadows: The Woods' in Marosa di Giorgio's Poetry
"Everything That Exists Is in Conflict": The Familiar-Unfamiliar Double
A Transplanted Woods from Italy
The Magical Refuge
Shadows in the Woods
The Natal Garden behind the Woods
Works Cited
"Extremely Nervous on This Earth": Fairy Tales and Madness in Edna O'Brien's In the Forest
Refuge from Trauma in the Irish Woods
Negative Romance
Earth-Destroying Fantasies
(Inter)Subjectivity
Unendurable Fantasy
Works Cited Kindling Gatherers and Lost Children: The Peopled Forests of Kerstin Ekman
The Wild, the Alien, the Beautiful
From Terror to Reverence
The Book We Can No Longer Read
The Language of Loss
Darkness and Deepness
Works Cited
Scenes of Mad Pursuits in Allegories by Hawthorne and O'Connor
The Woods of Evil in the Journey of Young Goodman Brown
Commentary on "Young Goodman Brown"
The Woods of Goodness in O'Connor's "A View of the Woods"
Commentary on "A View of the Woods"
Concluding Statement
Works Cited To Wander in the "Shadowed Land": The Fearsome Enchantment of Tolkien's Woods
Introduction
First, Into the (Linguistic) Woods
The Medieval Perspective on Forests and Woodlands
The Bad and the Good
Tolkien and the Woods
The Hobbit: Mirkwood Forest
Epilogue
Works Cited
Section 2
Visual Media
Eco-Sustainability, Nature, Gender and Trees: A Case Study of Avatar, How Harry Became a Tree , and The Tree of Life
Roots of Eco-Feminism and Film Studies
Avatar (2009)
How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
Madness in the Woods: How Harry Became a Tree The Tree of Life (2011)
Concluding Remarks
Works Cited
At the Mercy of the Maddening Mother: Gothic and Medieval Constructions of the Haunted Forest in Modern Horror Films
Mother Nature Maligned: The Gothic Forest in Evil Dead and The Cabin in the Woods
Maleficent Mother Nature: The Forest as Wicked Witch in The Blair Witch Project , Suspiria and The Woods
Works Cited
Eerie Encounters: The Bewitchery of the Dryads in the Film The Woods
Introduction
Forest Schools: Havens of Soul Transformation
In the Woods of Waking Dreams and Living Myth
Since storytelling began, narratives of getting lost in the woods or of choosing to live in the heterotopian space of the woods have remained popular and are, at the time of writing, experiencing a new revival. The theory of ecopsychology supplies a productive paradigm for understanding mental well-being in a cultural landscape suffused with reimaginings of nature as 'unspoiled wilderness'. The eco-psychopathologies presented in the essays in this volume range in origin from medieval literature to contemporary films and online games. The classic romantic or gothic trope of getting lost in the forest, but also its recreational function (forest-bathing) reflect mental states humans develop when they step into the culturally constructed entity of the woodland. These ecocritical analyses present different facets of such encounters.
9783631793398 3631793391
Ecocriticism.
17.80 literary theory: general.
20.10 art and society: general.
Ecocriticism.
Ecocriticism
Literatur
Das Unheimliche
Wald
809.933 / PUS