{"product_id":"impasse-poetics-at-the-nordic-oil-coast-contemporary-petrofiction-from-denmark-and-norway-paperback","title":"Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast: Contemporary Petrofiction from Denmark and Norway - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarl Emil Rosenbaek Reetz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, Karl Emil Rosenbaek Reetz examines the viscosity of our current bitumen foundation through the representation of oil as more than mere energy in Danish and Norwegian literature and culture from 1992 to today. The 1990s mark the beginning of institutionalized, supranational recognition of climate change with the initiation of the Conference of the Parties (COP, 1995), the UN Earth Summit of 1992, and the Kyoto Agreement of 1997. The last thirty years have seen a huge public and political increase in awareness of climate change, perfectly aligned with a huge increase in the production and consumption of fossil fuels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the quest for a greener future, the Nordic countries proclaim to be green frontier nations, yet Denmark and especially Norway also continue to extract natural gas and oil from the seabed of the North Sea and further North. This has led to a peculiar sense of oil impasse present in contemporary fiction from this region. The Nordic green frontier myth, it seems, does not instil the intelligentsia with a sense of accomplishment as much as a sense of despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An important--even necessary--contribution to a growing body of work on petroculture, from a region with a significant, yet understudied, greenhouse gas footprint. This culture of oil extraction in Norway is fascinatingly contradictory, even monstrous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Karen Pinkus, Cornell University professor emerita and author of\u003ci\u003e Subsurface \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl Emil Rosenbaek Reetz is the Carlsberg Internationalization Postdoc Fellow, Faculty of the Humanities, department of Nordic studies and linguistics at University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in culture and language from the University of Southern Denmark. He is a literary scholar specializing in the interrelations and cultural implications of energy sources, particularly oil. His primary area of interest concerns contemporary literary fiction from the Nordic countries and their intermixture with energy, particularly the heavily fossilized North Sea. Rosenbaek Reetz has published in\u003ci\u003e The Journal of Energy History\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Women, Gender \u0026amp; Research\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eEcozon@. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has contributed to \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to World Gothic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Sea in Nordic Literature, \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Handbook of Research on Sustainable Lifestyles\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.95 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53512417313075,"sku":"9781959000761","price":44.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/oDfNzebcV-9781959000761.webp?v=1781789084","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/impasse-poetics-at-the-nordic-oil-coast-contemporary-petrofiction-from-denmark-and-norway-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}