TY - BOOK AU - Pusse,Tina-Karen AU - Schwarz,Heike AU - Downes,Rebecca AU - AU - AU - TI - Madness in the woods: representations of the ecological uncanny T2 - Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment SN - 9783631793398 U1 - 809.933 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Berlin PB - Peter Lang, KW - Ecocriticism KW - 17.80 literary theory: general KW - 20.10 art and society: general KW - Literatur KW - Das Unheimliche KW - Wald KW - bcl KW - fast KW - gnd N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -