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Nina Goga, Lykke Guanio-Uluru, Bjørg Oddrun Hallås & Aslaug Nyrnes ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN’S TEXTS AND CULTURES Nordic Dialogues Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Series Editors Kerry Mallan Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, QLD, Australia Clare Bradford Deakin University Burwood, VIC, Australia This timely new series brings innovative perspectives to research on chil- dren’s literature. It offers accessible but sophisticated accounts of contem- porary critical approaches and applies them to the study of a diverse range of children’s texts—literature, film and multimedia. Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature includes monographs from both internationally recognised and emerging scholars. It demonstrates how new voices, new combinations of theories, and new shifts in the scholarship of literary and cultural studies illuminate the study of children’s texts. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14930 Nina Goga · Lykke Guanio-Uluru Bjørg Oddrun Hallås · Aslaug Nyrnes Editors Ecocritical Perspectives on Children’s Texts and Cultures Nordic Dialogues Editors Nina Goga Lykke Guanio-Uluru Western Norway University of Applied Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Sciences Bergen, Norway Bergen, Norway Bjørg Oddrun Hallås Aslaug Nyrnes Western Norway University of Applied Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Sciences Bergen, Norway Bergen, Norway Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature ISBN 978-3-319-90496-2 ISBN 978-3-319-90497-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90497-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018940754 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Cover illustration: Jon Hoem Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland C ontents 1 Introduction 1 Nina Goga, Lykke Guanio-Uluru, Bjørg Oddrun Hallås and Aslaug Nyrnes Part I Ethics and Aesthetics 2 Nature and Becoming in a Picturebook About “Things That Are” 27 Marianne Røskeland 3 Aesthetic Appreciation in Nature and Literature 41 Gunnar Karlsen 4 Children’s Literature as an Exercise in Ecological Thinking 57 Nina Goga Part II Landscape 5 The Nordic Winter Pastoral: A Heritage of Romanticism 75 Aslaug Nyrnes v vi CONTENTS 6 Unrest in Natural Landscapes 91 Ahmed Khateeb 7 From Wilderness Through Mediation Towards Rewilding: The Negotiations of the Jungle Discourse in Black Ivory and The Cry from the Jungle 107 Kristin Ørjasæter Part III Vegetal 8 Plant–Human Hybridity in the Story World of Kubbe 125 Lykke Guanio-Uluru 9 Poetic Constructions of Nature: The Forest in Recent Visual Poetry for Children 141 Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg Part IV Animal 10 Ecological Settings in Text and Pictures 159 Kaisu Rättyä 11 Marine Animals in Ted Hughes’s Poetry for Children: Ecocritical Readings of Selected Illustrated Poems 175 Berit Westergaard Bjørlo 12 The Representation of Ants in Catalan Contemporary Poetry for Children 191 Maria Pujol-Valls 13 “Who Will Save Us from the Rabbits?” Problematizing Nature in the Anthropocene 207 Hege Emma Rimmereide CONTENTS vii Part V Human 14 The Wild Child: Posthumanism and the Child–Animal Figure 225 Kerry Mallan 15 The Wilderness Children: Arctic Adventures, Gender and Ecocultural Criticism 241 Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt 16 “We Are All Nature”—Young Children’s Statements About Nature 259 Bjørg Oddrun Hallås and Marianne Presthus Heggen 17 Landscapes and Mindscapes in Two Picturebook Apps 277 Ture Schwebs Index 293 n C otes on ontributors Berit Westergaard Bjørlo is Assistant Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. She is working on a Ph.D. thesis examining how picturebooks recreate and repurpose poems and paintings. Her latest publication is Bjørlo, B. W. (2015) Illustrerte dikt: Bildeboka som arena for barnepoesi (Illustrated poetry: The picturebook as an arena of children’s poetry) in Skaret, A. (ed.). Barnelyrikk: en antologi. Vallset: Oplandske Bokforlag, pp. 105–24. Nina Goga is Professor in Children’s Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. She is the leader of the research group “Nature in Children’s Literature and Culture”. Her most recent publications are Goga, N. and Kümmerling-Meibauer, B. (eds.) (2017) Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature: Landscapes, Seascapes and Cityscapes, Amsterdam: John Benjamins; and Goga, N. (2015). Kart i barnelitteraturen (Maps in Children’s Literature), Kristiansand: Portal Akademisk. Lykke Guanio-Uluru is Associate Professor in YA Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. Recent publications include: Guanio-Uluru, L. (2017) Katniss Everdeen’s Posthuman Identity in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Series: Free as a Mockingjay. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 9(1), pp. 57–81; and Guanio-Uluru, L. (2015) Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling and Meyer. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ix x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt is Professor in Outdoor Studies at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Department of Physical Education, researching culture and gender relations. Her most recent publication is Gurholt, K. P. (2018) Tourist and Sport Reform Dress, Friluftsliv; and Women’s Right to Vote: Norway, 1880s–1913 in Gray, T. and Mitten, D. (eds.). The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129–46. Bjørg Oddrun Hallås is Professor in Physical Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. Her research focus is on physical education, outdoor education and didactics. She has published articles and was editor for Hallås, B. O. and Karlsen, G. (eds.). (2015) Natur og Danning (Nature and Cultural Formation). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. Marianne Presthus Heggen is Associate Professor in Natural Sciences at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. Her research focus is on early childhood education. She has published Heggen, M. P. (2016) Education for Sustainable Development in Norway in Siraj-Blatchford, J., Mogharreban, C. and Park, E. (eds.) International Research on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood. Springer International Publishing, pp. 91–102. Gunnar Karlsen is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Department of Philosophy. His research interests include philosophy of perception, aesthetics of nature, theory of argumenta- tion and the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty. Latest publications are Karlsen, G. (2015) Natur og Danning (Nature and Cultural Formation) in Hallås, B. O. and Karlsen, G. (eds.). Natur og Danning (Nature and Cultural Formation). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, pp. 21–35; and Karlsen, G. (2015). Språk og Argumentasjon (Language and Argumentation). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. Ahmed Khateeb is a Ph.D. candidate and Assistant Professor in Children’s Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. His Ph.D. project examines rep- resentations of nature and their role in formation stories. His latest pub- lication is Khateeb, A. (2018) Kulturmøter i barnelitteratur in Stokke, R. S. and Tønnesen, E. S. (eds). Møter med barnelitteratur. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, pp. 285–303.
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