Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French
Contributions by Laura Call, Nathan Germain, Gilles Mossière, Roland Racevskis, Annie Smart, James Whitlark Edited by Douglas L. Boudreau, Marnie M. Sullivan
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Publication date:
24 December 2015Length of book:
194 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498517324
Ecocriticism is a critical approach that focuses on the representation in literature of the non-human elements of the natural world, a method of inquiry that has been largely limited to literature written in English. The aim of Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French is twofold: to introduce ecocriticism to scholars of French-language literature, and to open ecocriticism to the vision and voices of French literature.The chapters look at work not only from France, but also from North America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The discussions include fiction, poetry, film and pedagogy. The goal of the collection is to demonstrate not only the applicability of ecocritical inquiry to literature in French, but to demonstrate the possibilities of ecocritical theory on the study of French literature, and also for ecocriticism itself. This collection will be a useful resource both for scholars of French-language literature and also for ecocritics who may have had only limited contact with literatures in languages other than English.