Aux origines du nature writing : découvrir, écrire & penser la wilderness américaine aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
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Aux origines du nature writing : découvrir, écrire & penser la wilderness américaine aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
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...
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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 ...
L'union fait la force (géologique) : une analyse écocritique des Fourmis de Bernard Werber / (Geological) force in unity...
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Ecologies of the Beachcomber in Colonial Australian Literature
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Ce que l’écriture peut pour la nature: entretien avec Patrick Chamoiseau
