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Subject(s)

• French literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ecocriticism—France [Browse]
• Ecology in literature [Browse]
• Nature in literature [Browse]

Series

• University of Toronto romance series (Unnumbered) [More in this series]
• University of Toronto Romance series

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-233) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : ecological readings
• Ecological subjectivity : Guattari and Darrieussecq
• Ecological dwelling : Serres and Lafon
• Ecological politics : Latour and Rufin
• Ecological ends : Schaeffer and Houellebecq
• Conclusion : further ecological readings.

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ISBN

• 9781487501457 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
• 1487501455 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))

LCCN

2017478901

OCLC

985966315

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