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Book SynopsisThis book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.
Trade Review«
French Ecocriticism bietet mithin ganz im Sinne der Herausgeber einen guten Überblick über das breite Spektrum der französischen écocritique, in der Politik und Poetik zueinander finden und die Fachleuten noch zu entdeckendes wissenschaftliches Neuland in Aussicht stellt.»
(Walter Wagner, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 2/2018)
«[...] for anyone involved in the environmental humanities from a French perspective this volume is essential reading.»
(Phillip John Usher, French Studies, 73/1 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kny307)
Table of ContentsFrench ecocriticism – Ecology/ecologies – Ecopoetics – Animal aesthetics – Forms of nature – Ecological thought – Environmental critique – Ecoerotica – Post-apocalyptic fiction – Becoming-milieu – The body – Landscapes – Ecocritique – Early modern – Sixteenth century – Nineteenth century – Twentieth century – Twenty-first century
