Overview
- Fills a gap in international children's literature criticism by focusing on a Nordic corpus
- Examines a wide variety of media, including picturebooks, graphic novels and story apps
- Looks at the lived experiences of outdoor learning practices in preschools and schools
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental concerns. The chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: Ethics and Aesthetics, Landscape, Vegetal, Animal, and Human, and together they explore Nordic representations and a Nordic conception, or feeling, of nature. The textual analyses are complemented with the lived experiences of outdoor learning practices in preschools and schools captured through children’s own statements. The volume highlights the growing influence of posthumanist theory and the continuing traces of anthropocentric concerns within contemporary children’s literature and culture, and a non-dualistic understanding of nature-culture interaction is reflected in the conceptual tool of the volume: The Nature in Culture Matrix.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nina Goga is Professor in Children’s Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. She is leader of the research group Nature in Children’s Literature and Culture and co-editor of Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes (2017) with Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer.
Lykke Guanio-Uluru is Associate Professor in YA Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, where she researches literature and ethics with a particular focus on fantasy, the posthuman, and digital games. She is the author of Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling and Meyer (2015).
Bjørg Oddrun Hallås is Professor in Physical Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and co-editor of Natur og Danning (2015) with Gunnar Karlsen.
Aslaug Nyrnes is Professor in Didactics of Literature and Fine Arts at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Professor II in the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen.
Lykke Guanio-Uluru is Associate Professor in YA Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, where she researches literature and ethics with a particular focus on fantasy, the posthuman, and digital games. She is the author of Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling and Meyer (2015).
Bjørg Oddrun Hallås is Professor in Physical Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and co-editor of Natur og Danning (2015) with Gunnar Karlsen.
Aslaug Nyrnes is Professor in Didactics of Literature and Fine Arts at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Professor II in the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures
Book Subtitle: Nordic Dialogues
Editors: Nina Goga, Lykke Guanio-Uluru, Bjørg Oddrun Hallås, Aslaug Nyrnes
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90497-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90496-2Published: 21 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08028-0Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90497-9Published: 11 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 299
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature