Zoom Lecture: Sub-Artic literary Eco Critic
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The 25th of November Professor Malan Marnersdóttir lectures on eco critical understanding in Faroese poetry and fiction
Nature has another role in Faroese poetry and fiction today than it used to have. In symbolist-neo romantic and nation-building poetry in the first decades of the 20th century, Faroese landscape was the material always at hand for symbolizing the uniqueness of the sub-arctic country the Faroe Islands, its people, language and
history.
After the Second World War however, poets like the Danish writing, Faroese and world famous William Heinesen (1900-91) and Karsten Hoydal (1912-90) describe how the atomic threats life and nature not only in the Faroes but also all over the globe.
In recent years, this eco critic gets more and more important, in all Faroese works of literature.
In my paper, I will present how two novels (1984 and 2020) and two poems (2007 and 2015) point out and describe ecological issues in Faroes. The eco critical understanding in the paper lean on Kate Soper, Cheryll Glotfelty, Timothy Morton and others’ theorizing about eco critics and literature.
The lecture is in English and starts at 3 pm on zoom.
Link is here.