Madness in the Woods: Representations of the Ecological Uncanny

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 .................................................. 145
Brenda 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

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.