Double gravité : L’écopoétique réduite à un seul principe
International audience
Hunting for the Sublime in Steven Rinella’s Memoirs and Still Lifes
peer reviewed / This essay explores the avenues opened and limits set by the sublime when used a rhetorical and narratological strategy for figuring and describing non-human animals in the memoir, an understudied but promising genre for examining human/nonhuman relationships. Since few (if any) recent theories of the sublime provide a viable revisi...
Fiction’s Swarm: The Creation(s) of Animals at the End(s) of Nature
My dissertation is concerned with the consequences of how literary, historical, and scientific representations of animal life tend to depict our fellow creatures through two static frameworks: as either “object” (i.e., a machine-like entity that runs purely on pre-programmed instinct) or as “person” (i.e., a being that shares all the same traits as...
Naturens Amfiteater. Kunstens natur
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Friederike Brun, née: Münter (1765–1835) became a famous writer in the German-speaking areas of Europe around 1800. She published collections of poems and travelogues in German, brought up as she was in the German and cosmopolitan circle in Copenhagen around Klopstock, Gerstenberg, her father, court chaplain Balthasar Münter, and others. Not least ...
Jon Krakauer
peer reviewed / Jon Krakauer (“Krakauer” being a synonym for Cracovian [Foster 151]) was born in 1954 in Brookline, Massachusetts (Marquis Who’s Who). His father, Lewis, was born in Brooklyn in 1927, but he studied medicine in Brookline and then moved to Corvallis, Oregon, with his wife Carol Ann to work and raise his son (150-51). Lewis Krakauer p...
Wendell Berry: A Place on Earth
reference work, no ISBN / status: Published online
Writing the Wilderness in the Anthropocene: Thoreau’s Legacy and the Contemporary American Eco-Memoir
4. Quality education / 13. Climate action
Ekokritiško branje sodobne slovenske alpinistične literature
Magistrska naloga se ukvarja z ekokritiškim branjem sodobne slovenske alpinistične literature, ki je izšla med letoma 2015 in 2020. Osrednja obravnava se loteva vprašanj v zvezi z reprezentacijo ekološke povezanosti in okoljske krize, s kritiko človeške dominacije nad nečloveškim in kritiko kolonializma, in sicer pri analizi naslednjih del: Najvišj...
Cuando la ecología se impone en la literatura
The ecological question has undergone a remarkable development in recent years in the French literary space, in line with the increasingly significant presence in the public debate of the environmental emergency. From the rise of green movements in politics to the encyclical Laudato si’ updating the magisterium of Pope Francis, from the warnings of...
Matthias Wegehaupt Die Insel (2005). Un exemple de robinsonnade qui interroge les liens entre l’homme et la nature
L’article traite du roman Die Insel de Matthias Wegehaupt (2005) qui, comme le suggère son titre, s’inscrit dans la tradition de la robinsonnade, genre littéraire particulièrement à même de proposer une réflexion sur la relation de l’homme à la nature. Plaçant face à face deux Robinson que tout oppose, le roman prolonge à la fois la tradition du Ro...
