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...
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...
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peer reviewed / Comme l’avait souligné Pierre Schoentjes en 2015 dans son Essai d’écopoétique, l’ecocriticism, ou « l’étude de la littérature dans ses rapports avec l’environnement naturel », tire ses racines aux États-Unis, là où le peuple Américain profitait déjà d’une abondance d’œuvres de nature writing et d’un paysage naturel éblouissant qui a...
The purpose of this work is to make a comparative study of nature/countryside symbols in the works of Miguel Delibes and Mo Yan, two important literary figures in Spain and China. By analyzing the works of nature writing, including the construction of literary space, language and the function of nature/countryside, we will try to draw similarities ...
The paper is an ecocritical analysis of the Empire of the ants, a book written in 1991 by Bernard Werber. Through this green reading, the author seeks to better understand how climate change is created from a social point of view and why, by inherence, it is so difficult to avert. As the book is largely a juxtaposition of the human society and that...
The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that the American genre of nature writing has reached an important crossroads in the way it describes the human-nature relationship. My study argues that the awareness of the large-scale environmental changes that are signaled in terms such as the Anthropocene has changed the way nature writer...
The paper explores the activities of three Los Angeles artists and activists, Lewis MacAdams, Lauren Bon and Jennifer Price, who suggest a shift from the paradigm of a distinction between civilisation and nature in US culture, to a more holistic form. The object that materialises this hybrid state in their work is the Los Angeles River. They aim at...
The aim of this study is to study how the themes of loss, hope and place attachment is presented in relation to the concept of ecoglobalist affects in the contemporary nature writing of Swedish author Kerstin Ekman and American author Terry Tempest Williams. I have performed a comparative close reading of three works per author and discussed them i...
