"Mänskligheten svämmar över alla bräddar och krymper på samma gång": Modernitet och antropocentrism i Karl-Erik Forsslunds Djur (1900) och Helena Granströms Det som en gång var (2016)

Sammanfattning

This article investigates the critique of modernity and anthropocentrism in works by Swedish authors Karl-Erik Forsslund (1872–1941), poet and novelist, and Helena Granström (b. 1983), poet, novelist and essayist. By comparing the ecological thinking of these two authors – highlighting important similarities, but also a number of significant differences – the article takes the form of an overview of the development of environmentalism. Special attention is given to the relations between man and animal in the 20^th and 21^st centuries, inspired by the works of ecocritics such as Greg Garrard and Timothy Morton.