Wild: Aesthetics of the Dangerous and Endangered

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nIllustrations\nEditors\nContributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: Wild. Aesthetics of the Dangerous and Endangered Solveig Bøe, Hege Charlotte Faber and Eivind Kasa\n	The aesthetic way of relating to the wild\n	Wild and domesticated land\n	The human wild\n	Reconciliation?\n	The chapters\n1 Environmental Aesthetics and Rewilding1 Jonathan Prior and Emily Brady\n	Introduction\n	On the meaning of ‘rewilding’\n	Temporality, imagination and the unmanaged aesthetic qualities of rewilding\n	The unscenic and terrible beauty of rewilding\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	Literature\n2 ‘Wild Thing’: The Aesthetic Prospects of Wildness Arto Haapala\n	The naturally wild\n	Home – dwelling\n	From homey to strange\n	Urban wildness\n	Wildness as an aesthetic feature\n	The role of wildness in urban existence\n	Notes\n	Literature\n3 A Shelter in the Wilderness Eivind Kasa\n	The meaning of shelters according to James Gibson\n	The body as the wild within\n	Architects building in the wild\n	Upholding buildings against the wild\n	From wild meanings to concepts\n	Affordances established by crafts and industrial production\n	The world as wild\n	The dream of being at home in the wilderness: gardens\n	Notes\n	Literature\n4 Of Wolves and Walls: Architecture and the Wild Andrew Ballantyne\n	Notes\n	Literature\n5 Wild Being: On Human Animality Solveig Bøe\n	Merleau-Ponty’s wild being among the things\n	Clarice Lispector’s wild open heart\n	Notes\n	Literature\n6 Into the Wild: Aesthetics of the Monstrous Brit Strandhagen\n	Introduction\n	Trolls in Nordic folk belief\n	Aesthetic appearance\n	On the sublime tradition\n	Dynamic ambivalence: Kant\n	Sublime terror: Burke\n	Sublime trolls\n	Notes\n	Literature\n7 Compulsions of Wildness: On Grieg’s Trolls in Lang’s M Magnar Breivik\n	Notes\n	Literature\n8 The Kalevala and Finnish Rune Songs – Wild Impressions in the Music of Sibelius Reidar Bakke\n	Notes\n	Literature\n9 Dangerous and Endangered Nature: Art as a Way of Seeing Hege Charlotte Faber\n	Introduction: Four works of art\n	Shark-Cow-Bathtub (1993)\n	In-between-ness\n	The mythological monster Medusa\n	Opus for Heaven and Earth (1993)\n	Short on beauty, ugliness and the sublime\n	A group of monsters – or a group of damaged trees? Salamander Night (1989)\n	A foreshadowed catastrophe? Fabrice Monteiro and The Prophecy\n	A few closing remarks\n	Notes\n	Literature\n10 Wild Weather: Modes of Being at the Mercy in Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, Turner’s Snowstorm and the Fiji House of the Spirits Sigurd Bergmann\n	The wild ‘bog in our brain and bowels’\n	Wild West Wind – Wild Spirit\n	Wild-running machines in steam and storm\n	From natural to anthropogenic wild in the House of the Spirits\n	Wild weather wisdom\n	Notes\n	Literature\n11 Watery Wilds: Pond Swimming and Protest on Hampstead Heath Jessica J. Lee\n	History, aesthetics and the context of conservation battles on the Heath\n	The Ponds Project\n	Wild waters\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	Literature\n12 The Fallow Land. A Farewell Jan Brockmann\n	Thrush Nightingales and the Underground\n	Notes\n	Literature\nIndex\nPlates