Environmental and ecological readings
Nature, human and posthuman Dimensions in Scottisch Literature & Arts (XVIII-XXIe)
The global risks posed by our industrial and post-industrial societies have brought environmental issues to the forefront of reflections and preoccupations in the postmodern world. One critical – and crucial – outcome of this state of affairs is the realization that artistic and literary representations of Nature and the environment need to be studied ever more closely if we are to adequately understand our relationship with our habitat and the impact we have had, and continue to have, on our ...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté
Lieu d’édition : Besançon
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 26 novembre 2020
ISBN numérique : 978-2-84867-749-1
DOI : 10.4000/books.pufc.8988
Collection : Annales littéraires | 947
Année d’édition : 2015
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-84867-530-5
Nombre de pages : 308
Philippe Laplace
Environmental and Ecological Readings: Nature, Human and Posthuman Dimensions in Scotland. IntroductionPart I. Nature and the Environment: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Anne Mckim
‘A Full Idea of your Own Country’: Paradise or Wilderness? Scottish Tourists on the Home TourYann Tholoniat
Robert Burns: Nature’s Bard and Nature’s PowersDavid I. A. Steel
Recreating an Ideal Landscape: a Community’s Approach to the Designed Landscape of CallyMarion Amblard
The Evolution of the Representation of Highland Landscapes by Scottish Painters between the Eighteenth and the Twenty-First CenturiesPart II. Nature, the Environment and the Posthuman: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Béatrice Duchateau
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Landscape: Landscape as SignRobin M. J. MacKenzie
The Hieroglyphic of Raindrops: Reading the Signs of Nature in The Warlock of Strathearn by Christopher WhyteWilliam Welstead
‘Hoping No-One Will See the Difference’: an Ecocritical Reading of Recent Poems by Meg Bateman (1959 -)Camille Manfredi
Scottish Petroliterature 1993-2013: Poetics of an Oil SpillDanièle Berton-Charrière
‘Land-scaping’ the Scottish Stage and DramaJessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
Shall We Try ‘Something New’?: The Posthuman in Brian McCabeThe global risks posed by our industrial and post-industrial societies have brought environmental issues to the forefront of reflections and preoccupations in the postmodern world. One critical – and crucial – outcome of this state of affairs is the realization that artistic and literary representations of Nature and the environment need to be studied ever more closely if we are to adequately understand our relationship with our habitat and the impact we have had, and continue to have, on our planet.
This volume features seventeen articles from French and international scholars covering a wide range of genres, from eighteenth-century travel writers to contemporary poets, playwrights and novelists. The essays consider Nature and the environment in their relationship to men and women and question how mankind is set to evolve in a contemporary world that is increasingly perceived as posthuman. They show how these concepts have affected Scottish authors and literature produced in Scotland.
Presented chronologically, the essays highlight how each of the authors featured may have influenced the ensuing literary tradition. While the first section focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century Scottish poets, novelists, artists or travel-writers, the second turns its attention to twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with an emphasis on modern and postmodern considerations, including the future of the human species from a posthuman perspective.
The collection is particularly noteworthy for its showcasing of previously unpublished material and stands as a significant contribution to arts research in ecocriticism and in the Scottish artistic and literary fields.
Philippe Laplace (dir.)
Lectures at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon. He is the author of a monograph on Gunn, Les Hautes-Terres, l’histoire et la mémoire dans les romans de Neil Gunn (2006) and has co-edited various books: Cities on the Margin; On the Margin of Cities (2003); The Irish Celebrating. Festive and Tragic Overtones (2008); Mobility, movement and transference of cultures and identities in the English-speaking world, http://e-crit3224.univ-fcomte.fr (2010); Marges & périphéries dans les pays de langue anglaise (2014). He is the publishing director of the online review e-CRIT3224.
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Michelet, à la recherche de l’identité de la France
De la fusion nationale au conflit des traditions
Aurélien Aramini
2013
Fantastique et événement
Étude comparée des œuvres de Jules Verne et Howard P. Lovercraft
Florent Montaclair
1997
L’inspiration scripturaire dans le théâtre et la poésie de Paul Claudel
Les œuvres de la maturité
Jacques Houriez
1998