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French écocritique : reading contemporary French theory and fiction ecologically

Posthumus, Stephanie, 1973- author

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\"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.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: French literature 20th century History and criticism. / Ecocriticism France. / Ecology in literature. / Nature in literature. / Ecocriticism. / French literature. / France.
• ISBN: 9781487501457, 1487501455

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PQ317.E26 P67 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE