French Écocritique Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically - University of Toronto Romance Series

French �cocritique 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 �cocritique 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.

ISBN:	9781487501457
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Published date:	07 Nov 2017
DEWEY:	840.936
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	vii, 249
Weight:	570g
Height:	163mm
Width:	237mm
Spine width:	26mm

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