Awards

• Short-listed for Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing 2018 (Canada)

Overview

French cocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in whichcontemporary 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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781487501457

ISBN 10:   1487501455
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   07 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION - Ecological Readings CHAPTER ONE - Ecological Subjectivity: Guattari and Darrieussecq CHAPTER TWO - Ecological Dwelling: Serres and Lafon  CHAPTER THREE - Ecological Politics: Latour and Rufin CHAPTER FOUR - Ecological Ends: Schaeffer and Houellebecq CONCLUSION - Further Ecological Readings Bibliography

Reviews

'Highly recommended.' - H. Freed-Thall - Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018

`Highly recommended.' -- H. Freed-Thall * Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018 *

Posthumus's book appears destined to become one of the most important resources for scholars interested in French ecological thought and fiction. It also promises to spark more interest in a field of study that has been relegated to the periphery in French and Francophone studies. - Keith Moser, Mississippi State University - The French Review 'Highly recommended.' - H. Freed-Thall - Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018

Author Information

Stephanie Posthumus is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.

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