FRNCH-326 Ecocritique: Environmental Literature in French
This course explores how literary and visual arts of the Francophone world can help us perceive climate change. We will examine how concepts such as ‘écocritique’ and ‘écopoétique’ can illuminate our understanding of how cultural forms shape the ways that people see, understand, and relate to the world. Cultural expressions of the human-nature relationship will be studied in texts by Chateaubriand, Sand, Maupassant, Camus, Chamoiseau, and Spitz and by theorists such as Serres, Latour, and Rabhi.
Proseminar (16)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
211, or above.
Offered
Fall
Notes
Taught entirely in French.