The man who reads (in Nara, the deer are kings)

Author(s)

  • Aude Jeannerod Lyon Catholic University
  • Pierre Schoentjes Ghent University
  • Olivier Sécardin Utrecht University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief12336

Keywords:

literary ecology, ecocriticism, romanticism, Francophone World, francophone, transculturality

Abstract

The objective is to examine literary representations of the environment, that is to say, the discourse that man holds in his literary productions about the nature that surrounds him and the relationships he has with it. At a time when texts on environmental issues are multiplying, there is a twofold requirement: to explore contemporary French and Francophone literature, but also to return to older texts to examine them in the light of our contemporary ecological sensitivity.

Author Biographies

  • Aude Jeannerod, Lyon Catholic University

    Aude Jeannerod is assistant professor in French literature at Lyon Catholic University and member of the research unit "Confluence: Sciences and Humanities". She published her PhD thesis : La Critique d'art de Joris-Karl Huysmans. Esthétique, poétique, idéologie (Classiques Garnier, 2020). Her research focuses on the links between litterature, arts and history of ideas, from the 19th to the 21st century.

  • Pierre Schoentjes, Ghent University

    Pierre Schoentjes is a professor at Ghent University, where he teaches French literature. A specialist in irony (Poétique de l'ironie, Seuil, 2001; Silhouettes de l'ironie, Droz, 2007) and the literary representation of the Great War (Fictions de la Grande Guerre, Classiques Garnier, 2009; La Grande Guerre : un siècle de fictions romanesques, Droz, 2008; " J'ai tué " Violence guerrière et fiction, Droz, 2010), he examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures in a European perspective. In collaboration with an international team, he has launched an electronic publication, the Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine. His latest work focuses on ecopoetics; in 2015 he published Ce qui a lieu. Essai d'écopoétique (Paris, Wildproject). Continuing his research on the relationship between literature and the environment, he published in 2020 with José Corti Littérature et écologie. Le Mur des abeilles, for which he received the Verdickt-Rydams prize for a work on the dialogue between the arts and sciences. With Droz, he published a study on the first ecologist in French literature: Écrire la nature, imaginer l'écologie. Pour Pierre Gascar (2021). His latest book, Nos regards se sont rencontrés. La scène de la rencontre avec un animal, has just been published (Le Mot et le reste).

  • Olivier Sécardin, Utrecht University

    Olivier Sécardin is Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Communication at Utrecht University. After teaching at numerous international universities, including Columbia University (New York), Kyushu University (Japan), the University of Chicago, and Cornell University, he is currently an assistant professor at Utrecht University. He studies canonical texts as well as contemporary forms of text and is himself a writer.

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Published

2022-07-08

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): Crossed views on francophone literature & ecology

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

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How to Cite

“The man who reads (in Nara, the deer are kings)” (2022) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 16(1), pp. 1–8. doi:10.51777/relief12336.