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Author Persels, Jeff

Title The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film
Published Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (165 pages)
Series French Literature Series ; v. 39
French literature series.
Contents Cover; Copyright Page; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, and the Possibility of a Natural Contract; It's a Queer Thing: Early Modern French Ecocriticism; Discours mythiques et écocritiques en dialogue: l'exempled'Alexandrie d'Égypte; "Please Don't Feed the Natives": Human Zoos, Colonial Desire, and Bodies on Display; Pilgrims in a Toxic Land: Writing the Trenches of the FrenchGreat War; Café toxique: éco-colonialisme et monoculture dans La Terre ducafé de Patrice Nganang; Writing the Land/scape: Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays
L'Environnement dans le dessin de presse de Plantu: étudesémiotiqueEco-Lessons: Yann Arthus-Bertrand's HOME and theRepublican Pedagogical Contract; Sciences humaines et écologie -- trouver les nouvellespasserelles et les nouveaux mots pour entreprendre un nouveaumonde
Summary Volume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors, filmakers and cartoonists as Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, Patrice Nganang, Marie Darrieussecq, Yann-Arthus Bertrand and Plantu, and such topics as human zoos, eco-colonialism, queer theory, and the environmental catastrophes of WWI and, globally, of human civilization as recorded in the recent eco-documentary, HOME . Wide-ranging, provocative and topical these articles both broaden and deepen the efficacy
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Subject Nature in literature -- Congresses
Nature in motion pictures -- Congresses
Ecocriticism -- Congresses
French literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Motion pictures, French -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Ecocriticism
French literature
Motion pictures, French
Nature in literature
Nature in motion pictures
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401208840
9401208840