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French 'Ecocritique': Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically

French 'Ecocritique': Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically

Posthumus, Stephanie

Hardcover

Series: University of Toronto Romance

Literary CriticismGeneral Art Instruction

ISBN10: 1487501455
ISBN13: 9781487501457
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Nov 7 2017
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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