Abstract
The term Anthropocene is often tied to an anxious awareness of the incalculable complexity of anthropogenic environmental changes. As a concept transferred from geology, the term Anthropocene, for humanities scholars such as Timothy Morton (Morton 2013) and Timothy Clark (Clark 2015), installs a crisis in thinking that is bound to scales of mundane and embodied experiences. Instead, they demand thinking about the impact of human life on the whole planet in much broader scales of space and time than is customary. This article examines how contemporary Nordic ecopoetry responds to these environmental changes and challenges in the epoch of the Anthropocene. The point of departure for this work is Silja E. K. Henderson’s 1,7 tipping point (Henderson, Silja E. K. 2018. 1,7 tipping point. København) and Jonas Gren’s Antropocen: dikt för en ny epok (Gren, Jonas 2016: Antropocen: dikt för en ny epok. Stockholm). The article argues that Henderson’s and Gren’s ecopoetry zooms in on micro-levels and out on larger global macro-levels to represent the scale-dynamics of the Anthropocene. Overall, the article argues that this kind of ecopoetry can affect and transform the reader’s ecological imagination.
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- Frontmatter
- Articles
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- Antropocæn økopoesi og komplekse skalaforhold
- Mordmedieringer
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- Dänemark – Hollywood – Europa
- „I dette sataniske Evangelium“
- The Emblem Texts at Tådene, Västergötland
- “ek hræðumz ekki þik” – The dvergar in translated riddarasǫgur
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Collaborative Authorship and Postmigration in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Novel Montecore
- Antropocæn økopoesi og komplekse skalaforhold
- Mordmedieringer
- Gender Trouble / Genre Trouble – Cecilie Løveids Østerrike
- Dänemark – Hollywood – Europa
- „I dette sataniske Evangelium“
- The Emblem Texts at Tådene, Västergötland
- “ek hræðumz ekki þik” – The dvergar in translated riddarasǫgur
- Reviews
- Daniela Hahn: Diebstahl und Raub in den Isländersagas. Einfallstore in die norröne Erzähl- und Vorstellungswelt
- Vera Johanterwage: Buddha in Bergen. Die altnordische Barlaams ok Josaphats saga
- Natalie M. van Deusen: The Saga of the Sister Saints. The Legend of Martha and Mary Magdalen in Old Norse-Icelandic Translation
- Lucie Korecká: Wizards and Words. The Old Norse vocabulary of magic in a cultural context
- Elena Brandenburg: Karl der Große im Norden. Rezeption französischer Heldenepik in den altostnordischen Handschriften
- Andrea De Leeuw van Weenen: AM 677 4°. Four Early Translations of Theological Texts: Gregory the Great’s Gospel Homilies, Gregory the Great’s Dialogues, Prosper’s Epigrams, De XII Abusivis Saeculi, edited and morphologically analysed by Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen
- Kevin Müller: Schreiben und Lesen im Altisländischen. Lexeme, syntagmatische Relationen und Konzepte in der Jóns saga helga, Sturlunga saga und Laurentius saga biskups
- Hans-Peter Naumann: Metrische Runeninschriften in Skandinavien. Einführung, Edition und Kommentare. Unter Mitarbeit von Marco Bianchi und Ulrike Marx-Alberding
- Malin Sandberg: Från beslut till broschyr. Intertextualitet, äldre och kultur i texter inom en statlig satsning
- Kerstin Gräfin von Schwerin: Friederike Brun. Weltbürgerin in der Zeitenwende. Eine Biographie
- Stephanie Reinbold: Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in der modernen schwedischen kinderliterarischen Phantastik
- Søren Blak Hjortshøj: Son of Spinoza. Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism