Gry Ulstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 2093307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gry Ulstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gry |
| FAMILY NAME | Ulstein |
| SIGNATURE | ULSTEIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5919-2834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Uncertainty and the limits of narrative: An introduction
Uncertainty is not an easy word to unpack.Partial knowledge of the past or present can create uncertainty, but so can the inability to form a coherent image of the future.Cognitive scientist Andy Clark (2016) argues that our brains are prediction machines, and that they evolved to cope with (and even benefit from) the constant failure of our predictions-that is, the world's inherent uncertainty.In individual terms, uncertainty is part and parcel …
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts
Originating in the works of early twentieth-century authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, weird fiction is experiencing a renaissance in contemporary literature. Several scholars have presented this literary mode as uniquely suited to speak to the anxieties generated by the current ecological crisis. In this essay, we examine Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (2019) as part of a wave of recent works that mark a sharp departure f…
Heights They Should Never Have Scaled: Our (Weird) Planet
In this article, I scrutinize the much-discussed “walrus scene” from Netflix’s nature documentary Our Planet (2019) for its formal and thematic similarities to weird fiction. I argue that these similarities reveal tensions in how we conceptualize the environment, the human, and the nonhuman. By comparing the narrative strategies in the walrus scene to similar strategies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (2014), I problematize the emerge…
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts
Originating in the works of early twentieth-century authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, weird fiction is experiencing a renaissance in contemporary literature. Several scholars have presented this literary mode as uniquely suited to speak to the anxieties generated by the current ecological crisis. In this essay, we examine Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (2019) as part of a wave of recent works that mark a sharp departure f…
Heights They Should Never Have Scaled: Our (Weird) Planet
In this article, I scrutinize the much-discussed “walrus scene” from Netflix’s nature documentary Our Planet (2019) for its formal and thematic similarities to weird fiction. I argue that these similarities reveal tensions in how we conceptualize the environment, the human, and the nonhuman. By comparing the narrative strategies in the walrus scene to similar strategies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (2014), I problematize the emerge…
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts
Originating in the works of early twentieth-century authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, weird fiction is experiencing a renaissance in contemporary literature. Several scholars have presented this literary mode as uniquely suited to speak to the anxieties generated by the current ecological crisis. In this essay, we examine Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (2019) as part of a wave of recent works that mark a sharp departure f…
Uncertainty and the limits of narrative: An introduction
Uncertainty is not an easy word to unpack.Partial knowledge of the past or present can create uncertainty, but so can the inability to form a coherent image of the future.Cognitive scientist Andy Clark (2016) argues that our brains are prediction machines, and that they evolved to cope with (and even benefit from) the constant failure of our predictions-that is, the world's inherent uncertainty.In individual terms, uncertainty is part and parcel …
Art (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)