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Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast

Contemporary Petrofiction from Denmark and Norway

Karl Emil Rosenbaek Reetz

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English
West Virginia University Press
26 May 2026
The first major study of contemporary Nordic petrofiction. Through a variety of cultural texts, including the Nordic noir mystery Smila's Sense of Snow, Rosenbaek Reetz exposes the cultural, political, and environmental tensions in which green frontier ideas must coexist with the ongoing reliance on oil and gas and critiques the paradox of Nordic nations positioning themselves as climate leaders while remaining deeply tied to fossil fuel economies.
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Imprint:   West Virginia University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   399g
ISBN:   9781959000761
ISBN 10:   1959000764
Series:   Energy and Society
Pages:   268
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Karl 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 Copenhagen. 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 the heavily industrialized Norway. Rosenbaek Reetz has published in The Journal of Energy History; Women, Gender & Research; and Ecozon@. He has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to World Gothic Literature, The Sea in Nordic Literature, and the Handbook of Research on Sustainable Lifestyles.

Reviews for Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast: Contemporary Petrofiction from Denmark and Norway

""An important- even necessary - contribution to a growing body of work on petroculture, from a region with a significant, yet understudied, greenhouse gass footprint. This culture of oil extraction is fascinatingly contradictory, even monstrous."" - Karen Pinkus, Cornell University professor emerita and author of Subsurface and Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary


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