Titlebook: Ecocritical Perspectives on Children‘s Texts and Cultures; Nordic Dialogues Nina Goga,Lykke Guanio-Uluru,Aslaug Nyrnes Book 2018 The Editor

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Introduction,o the study of children’s and YA literature. The survey is followed by a presentation of The Nature in Culture Matrix (The NatCul Matrix), a conceptual tool developed by the NaChiLit group, which is one of the volume’s key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in children’s texts and cultures.

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Nature and Becoming in a Picturebook About “Things That Are”iliarizing aesthetic quality of the book, which makes the readers aware of their natural surroundings in ecopoetic ways. The concept of nature offered is manifold and diverse, and the book demonstrates how the affordance of one’s natural surroundings is relative to the perceiver’s experience.

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Aesthetic Appreciation in Nature and Literatureedge of nature must play a role for how we experience nature, and emphasizes the multisensory aspect of nature experiences. Experiences in nature are then compared to experiences in literature and Karlsen argues for the importance of knowledge in both instances.

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Children’s Literature as an Exercise in Ecological Thinkingrelationship between, and values of, the various life forms. To support such a reading, the theoretical framework consists of ecocritical perspectives on the relationship between literary characters and the environment, and discussions of the need for an interspecies ethics.

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Plant–Human Hybridity in the Story World of Kubbe Kubbe and his environment through comparison with Carlo Collodi’s character of Pinocchio and with the Aristotelian view of plant capacities, Guanio-Uluru argues that the immediately idyllic view of plant–human relationships in Johnson’s story world is problematized in particular in light of plant theory.

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Ecological Settings in Text and Picturesevels. The ideological thematics in the book concern the acceptance of differences and divergences. Rättyä concludes that a romanticized view of childhood and nature is inverted to a counter-pastoral where the city landscape and an urban vagrant offer the protagonist friendship and companionship.

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The Representation of Ants in Catalan Contemporary Poetry for Childrener they problematize or celebrate nature. Comparing representations of ants from different bestiaries, Pujol-Valls brings awareness to the concept of nature offered to young readers of today. Simultaneously, this chapter sheds light on the way that creatures such as ants can be stereotyped in the Western literary tradition.

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The Wild Child: Posthumanism and the Child–Animal Figureocentrism and ecocentrism: its free, unencumbered state reflects ecocentrism acceptance to all forms of life, but runs counter to anthropocentricism’s view of human superiority and prejudices. The focus texts for the discussion are . by Mordecai Gerstein (1998), . by David Almond (2008), and . by Philip Pullman (1999).