Literature and nature: a dictionaric approach

Author(s)

  • Philippe Chométy University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
  • Jérôme Lamy CNRS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19410

Keywords:

literature, nature, dictionary, Lit&nature, environment

Abstract

The notion of “lit&nature” makes it possible to bring to light an international corpus of hybrid texts with an uncertain and poorly identified status, neither truly “scientific” nor truly “literary”, which bear the mark of a tension between two modes of knowledge of nature. Taking note of the main difficulties which still prevent the development of a general critical method which allows us to think about this tension, the authors of the Dictionnaire de litt&nature (to be published by Classiques Garnier in 2025) propose to contribute, with a group of authors, to the effort to theorize the inscription of natural knowledge in literature. The genre of the dictionary is particularly suitable for this.

Author Biographies

  • Philippe Chométy, University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

    Philippe Chométy is Professor of French literature at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (PLH-ELH EA 4601). He is a specialist in the relationships between literature, philosophy and sciences in the 17th century. He is the author of Translating Lucretia. For a history of the French reception of De rerum natura 16th-18th centuries (Paris, H. Champion, 2017, with Michèle Rosellini).

  • Jérôme Lamy, CNRS

    Jérôme Lamy is a historian and sociologist of science, and a researcher at the CNRS (CESSP, EHESS). He works on the history of scholarly materiality, the circulation of concepts and the anthropology of nature. He recently co-edited (with Liliane Hilaire-Pérez and Guillaume Carnino) A Global History of Technics, 19th-21st c. (Brepols, 2024).

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Published

2024-07-15

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024): At the School of Life: teaching literature with environmental humanities

Section

Essays

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How to Cite

“Literature and nature: a dictionaric approach” (2024) Relief - Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 18(1), pp. 187–197. doi:10.51777/relief19410.