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Madness in the Woods: Representations of the Ecological Uncanny

Madness in the Woods: Representations of the Ecological Uncanny

Bergthaller, Hannes
Pusse, Tina-Karen
Schwarz, Heike

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien Zu Literatur, Kultur Und Umwelt, Book 7

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631793391
ISBN13: 9783631793398
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Mar 17 2020
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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