French 'Ecocritique' : Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically / Stephanie Posthumus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Posthumus, Stephanie, author.

Series:

University of Toronto Romance Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Ecology in literature.

Nature in literature.

France.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ecological subjectivity : Guattari and Darrieussecq

Ecological dwelling : Serres and Lafon

Ecological politics : Latour and Rufin

Ecological ends : Schaeffer and Houellebecq.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1321-6

1-4875-1320-8

OCLC:

1054881482