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Title French ecocriticism : from the early modern period to the twenty-first century / Daniel A. Finch-Race, Stephanie Posthumus (eds)
Published Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, 2017

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Description 1 electronic resource (294 pages)
Series Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt. Studies in literature, culture, and the environment ; Vol. 1
Studies in literature, culture, and the environment ; volume 1.
Contents Introduction : developing French ecocriticism / Daniel A. Finch-Race, Stephanie Posthumus -- Part I. Early mondern economies and ecologies -- Through a glass darkly: dominion and the French wars of religion / Jeff Persels -- The vanity of ecology: expenditure in Montaigne's vision of the new world / Pauline Goul -- Part II. Romanticism and nature; naturalism and animality -- Victor Hugo and the politics of ecopoetics / Karen F. Quandt -- Fauves in the Faubourg: animal aesthetics in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin / Claire Nettleton -- Part III. Nineteenth century ecopoetics -- Ecopoetic adventures in Rimbaud's 'Sensation' and 'Ma Bohème' / Daniel A. Finch-Race -- Towards an ecopoetics of French free verse : Marie Krysinska's Rythmes pittoresques / David E. Evans -- Part IV. Twentieth-century ecological thought -- Marguerite Yourcenar's ecological thinking: wilderness, place-connectedness, biocentrism and an ethic of care / Teófilo Sanz -- Michel Serres: from restricted to general ecology / Christopher Watkin -- Part V. Millennial bodies, origins and becoming-milieu -- Ecoerotica in Stéphane Audeguy's La Théorie des nuages / Jonathan Krell -- The individual as environment: watching Jean-Claude Rousseau's Le Vallée close with Lucretius and Simondon / Nikolaj Lübecker -- Part VI. Twenty-first-century natural limits -- Writing (on) environmental catastrophes: the end of the world in Éric Chevillard's Sans l'orang-outan and Michel Houellebecq's La possibilité d'une île / Anaïs Boulard -- On the meaning of being alone with nature: Sylvain Tesson's ecocritical sincersity and ecopoetic sensuality in Dans les forêts de Sibérie / Hannes De Vriese -- Part VII. Horizons and prospects -- Engaging with cultural differences: the strange case of French écocritique / Stephanie Posthumus
Summary This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities
Analysis Literature: history and criticism
Art techniques and principles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ecocriticism.
Ecology in literature.
Environmental literature -- History and criticism
French literature -- History and criticism
French literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism
French literature -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Ecocriticism
Ecology in literature
Environmental literature
French literature
French literature -- Foreign countries
Nature in literature
Ecocriticism
Französisch
Literatur
Umweltbewusstsein Motiv
French-speaking countries
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Finch-Race, Daniel A., editor
Posthumus, Stephanie, 1973- editor.
LC no. 2020718923
ISBN 9783631713242
363171324X
9783631713259
3631713258
9783653066067
3653066069