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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hannes Bergthaller , Tina-Karen Pusse , Heike Schwarz , Rebecca DownesPublisher: Peter Lang AG Imprint: Peter Lang AG Edition: New edition Volume: 7 Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9783631793398ISBN 10: 3631793391 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 17 March 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction ............................................................................................................. 9 Section 1 – Literature Feargal Ó Béarra The Arboreal in Buile Shuibhne ............................................................................ 25 Nick Kankahainen “A Voice! A Voice!”: The Foucauldian Silence of Mr Kurtz .............................. 41 Elena Campero A Burst of Magic in the Shadows: The Woods’ in Marosa di Giorgio’s Poetry .................................................................................................. 59 Maureen O’Connor “Extremely Nervous on This Earth”: Fairy Tales and Madness in Edna O’Brien’s in the Forest ............................................................................................. 75 Jennifer Coralie Kindling Gatherers and Lost Children: The Peopled Forests of Kerstin Ekman ...................................................................................................................... 91 Helen R. Andretta Scenes of Mad Pursuits in Allegories by Hawthorne and O’Connor ............ 105 June-Ann Greeley To Wander in the “Shadowed Land”: The Fearsome Enchantment of Tolkien’s Woods ...................................................................................................... 119 Section 2 – Visual Media Pat Brereton Eco-Sustainability, Nature, Gender and Trees: A Case Study of Avatar, How Harry Became a Tree, and The Tree of Life .................................................. 145 Brenda S. Gardenour Walter At the Mercy of the Maddening Mother: Gothic and Medieval Constructions of the Haunted Forest in Modern Horror Films ...................... 165 Emmanuelle Patrice Eerie Encounters: The Bewitchery of the Dryads in the Film The Woods ...... 181 Michael Fuchs When the Forest Is Not Quite What It Seems to Be: The Simulacral Spaces of “Nature” in The Cabin in the Woods .................................................... 199 Fernando Pagnoni Berns The Woods Are for the Poor (and Also for Monstrous Beings): Forests as Liminal Spaces in Spanish Films ..................................................................... 219 Melissa Bianchi Lost in the Woods: Procedurality and the Uncanny in The Legend of Zelda Series ............................................................................................................. 233ReviewsAuthor InformationTina Karen Pusse, Dr phil (University of Cologne 2004), is a Lecturer of German Literature at NUI Galway, and Associate Director of the Moore Institute. She has published in the areas of environmental humanities, gender studies, modern German poetry, autobiography, theory of laughter. Heike Schwarz, Dr phil, studied American studies, politics and philosophy. She completed her Ph.D on the representation of psychiatric diagnoses at the University of Augsburg. She publishes in the fields of psychiatry and fiction, film studies, environmental humanities, ecopsychology, medical humanities, dementia and disability studies. Rebecca Downes, PhD (NUI Galway 2017), works as an editor and independent scholar. Her dissertation on Mortality in late works by John Banville, Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee was funded by the Irish Research Council. She has published on death in contemporary fiction, John Banville and Philip Roth. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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