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S. Posthumus, French Écocritique. Reading French Theory and Fiction Ecologically

S. Posthumus, French Écocritique. Reading French Theory and Fiction Ecologically

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Stéphanie Posthumus)

 

Posthumus, Stéphanie

French Écocritique: Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, collection "Romance Series", 2017.

EAN13 : 9781487501457. — 264 pages. — 45 $ (CAN)

 

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.

Table of contents

INTRODUCTION - Ecological Readings

CHAPTER ONE - Ecological Subjectivity: Guattari and Darrieussecq

CHAPTER TWO - Ecological Dwelling: Serres and Lafon 

CHAPTER THREE - Ecological Politics: Latour and Rufin

CHAPTER FOUR - Ecological Ends: Schaeffer and Houellebecq

CONCLUSION - Further Ecological Readings

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