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The overarching question that guides Ecocritical Perspectives on Children’s Texts and Cultures: Nordic Dialogues is: How is nature represented in children’s and YA texts and cultures with an emphasis on a Nordic corpus? The emphasis on a Nordic corpus helps to fill a gap in international children’s literature criticism and broaden an appreciation of Nordic children’s literature. The introduction presents the background and scope of the volume and a short survey of its ecocritical influences, emphasizing contributions to the study of children’s and YA literature. The survey is followed by a presentation of The Nature in Culture Matrix (The NatCul Matrix), a conceptual tool developed by the NaChiLit group, which is one of the volume’s key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in children’s texts and cultures.
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Goga, N., Guanio-Uluru, L., Hallås, B.O., Nyrnes, A. (2018). Introduction. In: Goga, N., Guanio-Uluru, L., Hallås, B., Nyrnes, A. (eds) Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90497-9_1
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