French 'Ecocritique' : Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically PDF
by Stephanie Posthumus
Part of the University of Toronto Romance Series series
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French Ecocritique 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 Ecocritique 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.
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- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2017
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- Literature: history & criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary studies: post-colonial literature
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose wri..
- Literary companions
- Fiction companions
- Environmentalist thought & ideology
- Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organi..
- Conservation of the environment
- ISBN:9781487513207
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Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2017
-
Category:
- Literature: history & criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary studies: post-colonial literature
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose wri..
- Literary companions
- Fiction companions
- Environmentalist thought & ideology
- Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organi..
- Conservation of the environment
- ISBN:9781487513207