French ecocriticism : from the early modern period to the twenty-first century / Daniel A. Finch-Race, Stephanie Posthumus (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finch-Race, Daniel A., editor.

Posthumus, Stephanie, 1973- editor.

Series:

Studies in literature, culture, and the environment ; Vol. 1.

Studies in Literature, culture and the environment ; Vol. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--History and criticism.

French literature.

Nature in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Environmental literature.

French literature--French-speaking countries--History and criticism.

French-speaking countries.

French literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

French literature--Foreign countries.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

294 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2017]

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Developing French Ecocriticism / Daniel A. Finch-Race Finch-Race, Daniel A., Stephanie Posthumus Posthumus, Stephanie 9

Part I Early Modern Economies and Ecologies

Through a Glass Darkly: Dominion and the French Wars of Religion / Jeff Persels Persels, Jeff 25

The Vanity of Ecology: Expenditure in Montaigne's Vision of the New World / Pauline Goul Goul, Pauline 43

Part II Romanticism and Nature; Naturalism and Animality

Victor Hugo and the Politics of Ecopoetics / Karen F. Quandt Quandt, Karen F. 61

Fauves in the Faubourg: Animal Aesthetics in Emile Zola's Therese Raquin / Claire Nettleton Nettleton, Claire 81

Part III Nineteenth-Century Ecopoetics

Ecopoetic Adventures in Rimbaud's 'Sensation' and 'Ma Bohème' / Daniel A. Finch-Race Finch-Race, Daniel A. 99

Towards an Ecopoetics of French Free Verse: Marie Krysinska's Rythmes pittoresques / David E. Evans Evans, David E. 115

Part IV Twentieth-Century Ecological Thought

Marguerite Yourcenar's Ecological Thinking: Wilderness, Place-Connectedness, Biocentrism, and an Ethic of Care / Teófilo Sanz Sanz, Teófilo 137

Michel Serres: From Restricted to General Ecology / Christopher Watkin Watkin, Christopher 153

Part V Millennial Bodies, Origins and Becoming-Milieu

Ecnerotica in Stephane Audeguy's La Théorie des nuages / Jonathan Krell Krell, Jonathan 175

The Individual as Environment: Watching Jean-Claude Rousseau's La Vallée dose with Lucretius and Simondon / Nikolaj Lübecker Lübecker, Nikolaj 195

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 Boulard, Anaïs 215

On the Meaning of Being Alone with Nature: Sylvain Tesson's Ecocritical Sincerity and Ecopoetic Sensuality in Dans les forêts de Sibérie / Hannes De Vriese Vriese, Hannes De 231

Part VII Horizons and Prospects

Engaging with Cultural Differences: The Strange Case of French écocritique / Stephanie Posthnmus Posthnmus, Stephanie 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783631673454

3631673450

OCLC:

974438108

Publisher Number:

99972642466