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This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. Developing Phoebe Wagner's pioneering concept of the environmental grotesque, the book's authors argue that the problem is not ignorance of the crisis but rather poverty in our imaginative responses. Grotesque Anthropocene thus offers a needed rupture of our current ecological sensibilities, attending to the productive ambiguities of works across media, from art and literature to film and television.

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Author:   Erik Erlanson ,  Nicolai Skiveren ,  Jacob Wamberg
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032093639

ISBN 10:   3032093635
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   19 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: introduction Grotesque Anthropocene.- Chapter 2: From Hyperabject to Entropy.- Chapter 3: Tampering with the normativity of life: Pierre Klossowski’s Living Currency and the politics of the environmental grotesque.- Chapter 4: Grotesque bodies in ruined worlds: intermedial experimentalism in Rita Indiana’s environmental grotesque.- Chapter 5: An Estranged, Borderless, Mad, and Lively World: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Grotesque Vision of the Scandinavian Anthropocene.- Chapter 6: Eat Me. Cannibalism and Regeneration in Lina Rydén Reynols’s Använd dem som du vill.- Chapter 7: Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick? a Case Study of the Eco-Critical and Environmental Grotesque in Cinema.- Chapter 8: Carnival in the Anthropocene: Nordic Eco-Comedy and Grotesque Environmental Humor.- Chapter 9: The botanical grotesque Interspecies care, power, and vegetal mythologies in contemporary Scandinavian art.-Chapter 10:How the Environmental Grotesque Works Testing Its Impact Experimentally.

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Erik Erlanson is associate senior lecturer at the Department of Film and Literature at Linnaeus University and a member of the Linnaeus Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. Nicolai Skiveren is a postdoctoral research fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Human Animal Studies (NZCHAS) at Canterbury University, New Zealand.  Jacob Wamberg is an independent scholar and former professor of art history at Aarhus University.

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