Per Esben Svelstad

Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908¿1979

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as "unnatural." Providing in-depth studies of a variety of texts, this book demonstrates the merits of bridging the gap between the "de-naturalizing" project of gender and queer theory on the one hand, and, on the other, the ecocritical centering of material, nonhuman environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-56029-3
• 2024
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9783031560293
• ISBN-10: 3031560299
• Artikelnr.: 69917462

Autorenporträt

Per Esben Svelstad is Associate Professor of Norwegian in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Sexualities and Environments in the Norwegian 20th Century.- Part 1: Love between Women as Challenge to the Othering of the Nonhuman.- Chapter 2: Elusive Sapphism.- Chapter 3: Urban Environments in the Lesbian Canon.- Part 2: The Gay Male Pastoral.- Chapter 4: The Political Ambiguity of Pastoral.- Chapter 5: Re-Claiming the Nonhuman.- Chapter 6: Queering the Environment