Inhalt
Introduction ............................................................................................................. 9
Section 1 – Literature
Feargal Ó Béarra
The Arboreal in Buile Shuibhne ............................................................................ 25
Nick Kankahainen
“A Voice! A Voice!”: The Foucauldian Silence of Mr Kurtz .............................. 41
Elena Campero
A Burst of Magic in the Shadows: The Woods’ in Marosa
di Giorgio’s Poetry .................................................................................................. 59
Maureen O’Connor
“Extremely Nervous on This Earth”: Fairy Tales and Madness in Edna
O’Brien’s in the Forest ............................................................................................. 75
Jennifer Coralie
Kindling Gatherers and Lost Children: The Peopled Forests of Kerstin
Ekman ...................................................................................................................... 91
Helen R. Andretta
Scenes of Mad Pursuits in Allegories by Hawthorne and O’Connor ............ 105
June-Ann Greeley
To Wander in the “Shadowed Land”: The Fearsome Enchantment of
Tolkien’s Woods ...................................................................................................... 119
Section 2 – Visual Media
Pat Brereton
Eco-Sustainability, Nature, Gender and Trees: A Case Study of Avatar,
How Harry Became a Tree, and The Tree of Life .................................................. 145Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
At the Mercy of the Maddening Mother: Gothic and Medieval
Constructions of the Haunted Forest in Modern Horror Films ...................... 165
Emmanuelle Patrice
Eerie Encounters: The Bewitchery of the Dryads in the Film The Woods ...... 181
Michael Fuchs
When the Forest Is Not Quite What It Seems to Be: The Simulacral
Spaces of “Nature” in The Cabin in the Woods .................................................... 199
Fernando Pagnoni Berns
The Woods Are for the Poor (and Also for Monstrous Beings): Forests
as Liminal Spaces in Spanish Films ..................................................................... 219
Melissa Bianchi
Lost in the Woods: Procedurality and the Uncanny in The Legend of
Zelda Series ............................................................................................................. 233
