TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tina-Karen Pusse
AU  - Heike Schwarz
AU  - Rebecca Downes
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2365-645X
SN  - 9783631821640
TI  - Madness in the Woods: Representations of the Ecological Uncanny
DO  - 10.3726/b16953
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057108
N2  - Since storytelling began, narratives of getting lost in the woods or of choosing to live in the heterotopian space of the woods have remained popular and are, at the time of writing, experiencing a new revival. The theory of ecopsychology supplies a productive paradigm for understanding mental well-being in a cultural landscape suffused with reimaginings of nature as ‘unspoiled wilderness’. The eco-psychopathologies presented in the essays in this volume range in origin from medieval literature to contemporary films and online games. The classic romantic or gothic trope of getting lost in the forest, but also its recreational function (forest-bathing) reflect mental states humans develop when they step into the culturally constructed entity of the woodland. These ecocritical analyses present different facets of such encounters.
KW  - Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Culture Studies, Uncanny, Woods, Forest
LA  - English
ER  -