French 'Ecocritique'

Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically

von Stephanie Posthumus

264 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9781487501457
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2017
• Größe: 231 x 155 mm
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press