Evergreen Ash
«'Abram positively embraces anachronism, reading contemporary concerns into medieval works of literature to get something out of them that is useful to our contemporary concern with that present and future state of the world.' - The Times Literary Supplement, October 2019»
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 nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Virginia Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780813942278
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«'Abram positively embraces anachronism, reading contemporary concerns into medieval works of literature to get something out of them that is useful to our contemporary concern with that present and future state of the world.' - The Times Literary Supplement, October 2019»