Madness in the Woods: Representations of the Ecological Uncanny

Tina Karen Pusse, Dr phil (University of Cologne 2004), is a Lecturer of German Literature at NUI Galway, and Associate Director of the Moore Institute. She has published in the areas of environmental humanities, gender studies, modern German poetry, autobiography, theory of laughter. Heike Schwarz, Dr phil, studied American studies, politics and philosophy. She completed her Ph.D on the representation of psychiatric diagnoses at the University of Augsburg. She publishes in the fields of psychiatry and fiction, film studies, environmental humanities, ecopsychology, medical humanities, dementia and disability studies.Rebecca Downes, PhD (NUI Galway 2017), works as an editor and independent scholar. Her dissertation on Mortality in late works by John Banville, Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee was funded by the Irish Research Council. She has published on death in contemporary fiction, John Banville and Philip Roth.

• Introduction ............................................................................................................. 9Section 1 – LiteratureFeargal Ó BéarraThe Arboreal in Buile Shuibhne ............................................................................ 25Nick Kankahainen“A Voice! A Voice!”: The Foucauldian Silence of Mr Kurtz .............................. 41Elena CamperoA Burst of Magic in the Shadows: The Woods’ in Marosadi Giorgio’s Poetry .................................................................................................. 59Maureen O’Connor“Extremely Nervous on This Earth”: Fairy Tales and Madness in EdnaO’Brien’s in the Forest ............................................................................................. 75Jennifer CoralieKindling Gatherers and Lost Children: The Peopled Forests of KerstinEkman ...................................................................................................................... 91Helen R. AndrettaScenes of Mad Pursuits in Allegories by Hawthorne and O’Connor ............ 105June-Ann GreeleyTo Wander in the “Shadowed Land”: The Fearsome Enchantment ofTolkien’s Woods ...................................................................................................... 119Section 2 – Visual MediaPat BreretonEco-Sustainability, Nature, Gender and Trees: A Case Study of Avatar,How Harry Became a Tree, and The Tree of Life .................................................. 145Brenda S. Gardenour WalterAt the Mercy of the Maddening Mother: Gothic and MedievalConstructions of the Haunted Forest in Modern Horror Films ...................... 165Emmanuelle PatriceEerie Encounters: The Bewitchery of the Dryads in the Film The Woods ...... 181Michael FuchsWhen the Forest Is Not Quite What It Seems to Be: The SimulacralSpaces of “Nature” in The Cabin in the Woods .................................................... 199Fernando Pagnoni BernsThe Woods Are for the Poor (and Also for Monstrous Beings): Forestsas Liminal Spaces in Spanish Films ..................................................................... 219Melissa BianchiLost in the Woods: Procedurality and the Uncanny in The Legend ofZelda Series ............................................................................................................. 233