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This 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, Emile Zola,
Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel
Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Eric 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.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine
the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany,
the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars
from Europe and North America, the book considers climate
skeptical-texts as literature, teasing out differences and
challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political
paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time.
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the
investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment
are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to
understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so
indirectly by focusing primarily on written texts. Hailed as one of
the most timely and provocative developments in literary and
cultural studies of recent decades, it has also been greeted with
bewilderment or scepticism by those for whom its aims and methods
are unclear. This book seeks to bring into view the development of
ecocriticism in the context of Canadian literary studies.
Selections include work by Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Sherrill
Grace, and Rosemary Sullivan.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine
the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany,
the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars
from Europe and North America, the book considers climate
skeptical-texts as literature, teasing out differences and
challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political
paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time.
French Ecocritique 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 Ecocritique 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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