Rural spaces and contemporary poetry: reading, writing and fieldwork in education

Author(s)

  • Magali Tritto Moris University of Burgundy and University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19402

Keywords:

contemporary poetry, ruralities, minority languages, ecopoetics, rurality

Abstract

In this article, based on an ecocritical approach of literature, poems are considered as knots in the tissue of our relations with the living environment, our relations and attachments with territories and (mostly rural) inhabitants. The poems written by Estelle Ceccarini, Aurélie Olivier, Sonia Moretti, Laetitia Gaudefroy Colombot, about and from rural territories, enrich our cartographies of countryside – emptied by our urban ways of thought. These contemporary poems, situated in singular places, could be extended by meetings – with places, territories, animals, inhabitants, cultural actors – in order to tie social relations around the poetry book. They connect the striding of space and language and show that learning to observe, to care, and to be curious, can be developed through poetic practice.  

Author Biography

  • Magali Tritto Moris, University of Burgundy and University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

    Magali Tritto Moris, graduate of the ENS in Lyon and qualified in modern languages, is currently a PhD-candidate in Comparative literature under the direction of Henri Garric, University of Bourgogne, and Jean-François Courouau, University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, where she teaches as well. She is preparing a doctoral thesis on ecopoetics in the contemporary world. This thesis studies rural spaces in literature and the becoming of minor languages, through a combination of literary, sociological, geographical and linguistic perspectives, as well as poetry and field work, drawing on the reflections of research-action-creation.

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Published

2024-07-15

How to Cite

Tritto Moris, M. (2024) “Rural spaces and contemporary poetry: reading, writing and fieldwork in education”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 18(1), pp. 68–85. doi:10.51777/relief19402.