French 'Ecocritique'
Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, French, European, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection
| Author: | Stephanie Posthumus | ISBN: | 9781487513214 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division | Publication: | October 31, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Stephanie Posthumus |
| ISBN: | 9781487513214 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division |
| Publication: | October 31, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus’s ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent ecocritical theories to complicate what might otherwise become a reductive notion of "French ecocriticism." Working across contemporary philosophy and literature, the book defines the concept of the ecological as an attentiveness to specific nature-culture contexts and to a text’s many interdiscursive connections. Posthumus identifies four key concepts, ecological subjectivity, ecological dwelling, ecological politics, and ecological ends, for changing how we think about human-nature relations. French Écocritique highlights the importance of moving beyond canonical ecocritical texts and examining a diversity of cultural and literary traditions for new ways of imagining the environment.
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus’s ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent ecocritical theories to complicate what might otherwise become a reductive notion of "French ecocriticism." Working across contemporary philosophy and literature, the book defines the concept of the ecological as an attentiveness to specific nature-culture contexts and to a text’s many interdiscursive connections. Posthumus identifies four key concepts, ecological subjectivity, ecological dwelling, ecological politics, and ecological ends, for changing how we think about human-nature relations. French Écocritique highlights the importance of moving beyond canonical ecocritical texts and examining a diversity of cultural and literary traditions for new ways of imagining the environment.
