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Author : Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487501457
Author : Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487513214
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.
Author : Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1487513208
"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."--
Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110314595
Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.
Author : Daniel A. Finch-Race,Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 3653066069
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.
Author : Jeff Persels
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208840
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 of ecocriticism as a tool for enriching our understanding of the field beyond the English and American “nature writing” at the theory’s core.
Author : Raili Marling,Sara Bédard-Goulet,Tanel Lepsoo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527583542
Today’s world is characterized by a pervasive sense of crisis and uncertainty. This has created an increasingly urgent set of questions about who counts as human today and the nature of meaningful human life. Although the human impact on earth is as visible as ever, we can no longer take the centrality of the human for granted. This tension is at the center of this volume, which engages with ontological theories of posthumanism and new materialism, combining them with poststructuralist theories of power and subjectivity to create a comprehensive matrix for diagnosing the present. Within this framework, the authors discuss American and French novels and French-language plays that offer an insight into today’s diverse challenges to being human. They consider the impact of neoliberalism on shaping human affects and intimacies, as well as literary responses to socio-economic precarity. The current environmental catastrophe is tackled through novels that question the human responsibility in bringing about, for example, the sixth mass extinction of species and the anthropocentricity of literature itself. The art and artificiality of theater are shown to be means that allow us to delve into the extremes of human experience, for example, by revisiting myths that re-interpret desire and question the possibility of a future for human beings.
Author : Daniel A. Finch-Race,Julien Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1182832632
Author : Keith Moser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030961299
Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era is focused on the fields of biosemiotics, linguistics, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Closely aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 13.1, Keith Moser’s study aims to strengthen resilience to climate-related hazards by drawing on ecological theories developed by French philosophers in conversation with biosemiotic principles. Not only does the novel theoretical framework offered by biosemiotic interpretations of the universe and our place in it represent an indispensable conceptual tool for understanding the unprecedented medical challenges at the dawn of a new millennium, but it also beckons us to think harder about the environmental crisis that threatens the continued existence of all sentient beings who call the biosphere home. This book also highlights the richness, diversity, and utility of the ecological theories developed by the French philosophers Michel Serres, Edgar Morin, Jacques Derrida, Dominique Lestel, and Michel Onfray in addition to how they engage with biosemiotic principles. Taken together, the book probes the scientific, linguistic, philosophical, and ethical implications of biosemiotic theories in a post-pandemic world from an environmental and medical perspective.
Author : Daniel A. Finch-Race,Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Ecocriticism
ISBN : 3631673450
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.
Author : Pauline Goul,Pauline John Usher,Phillip John Usher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ecocriticism
ISBN : 9462985979
1. It asks not what ecological thought can do for early modern literature, but vice-versa. 2. It brings a specifically Francophone focus to the dialogue between early modern literature and eco-theory. 3. It gathers work from some of the most respected scholars in French Studies, but also from several younger scholars within the field.
Author : Anne Rehill
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498531115
This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century are portrayed in four works of French Canadian literature. Literary depictions of these men of European origin reveal the dominant culture’s changing attitudes toward Amerindians and land use, exposing each period’s problematic behavior vis-à-vis different cultures and the environment and the intercultural connections and business relationships that point to the way forward.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UFL:35051123636708
Author : Thangam Ravindranathan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810140738
As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature’s creatures? Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings examines incongruous animals in the works of four major contemporary French writers: an airborne horse in a novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, extinct orangutans in Éric Chevillard, stray dogs in Marie NDiaye, vanishing (bits of) hedgehogs in Marie Darrieussecq. Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply—literally or metaphorically—an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing. The animal is a lure: an unfinished figure fleeing the frame, crossing bounds of period, genre, even medium and language. Its flight traces an exorbitant (self-)portrait in which thinking admits to its commerce with life and flesh. It is in its animals, at the same time unbearably real and exquisitely unreal, that literature may today be closest to philosophy. This book’s primary focus is the contemporary French novel and continental philosophy. In addition to Toussaint, Chevillard, NDiaye, and Darrieussecq, it engages the work of Jean de La Fontaine, Eadweard Muybridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett, and Francis Ponge.
Author : Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781382639
A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.