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In a Scandinavian Forest (An Ephemeral Cartography of Nature)

Author(s): Magdalena Kuczaba-Flisak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: forest in literature; climate catastrophe; children’s literature; Scandinavian literature; Tove Jansson; ecology; nature

Summary/Abstract: This article concentrates on the concept of landscape, which, according to Nina Goga’sfindings, together with language, defines the place where protagonists establish deep relationshipswith nature within a local ecosystem. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the conceptof landscape relates to the issue of listening to the biological language of nature, focusing primarilyon the imagery of the forest in Scandinavian children’s literature.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 1-16
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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