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T1 Ecological sensibility and the experience of nature in the twentieth-century French literature of Jean Giono, Marguerite Yourcenar and Julien Gracq
A1 Wagner, Walter
K1 Environmental ethics
K1 Environmental aesthetics
K1 Antimodernism
K1 Wilderness
K1 Romanticism
K1 Ética medioambiental
K1 Estética medioambiental
K1 Antimodernismo
K1 Naturaleza
K1 Romanticismo
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB This essay provides a survey of relevant works by Jean Giono, Marguerite Yourcenar and Julien Gracq, three major authors of twentieth-century French literature. All of these authors attempt in various ways to overcome the nature-culture dualism, a largely neglected topic in modern French literature, which is in accordance with a Romantic conception of nature. The following article falls into two parts. In the first part, I will analyse selected examples of experiences of nature that reflect an awareness of the complex interdependence of humans and their natural environment, i.e. a basic form of ecological sensibility. In the second part, I propose to explore the correlation between ecological sensibility and the search for the good life, which aims at cultural and social change. Finally, I will evaluate the three writers’ debt to Romantic ecology and where they transcend it in order to create a modern ecological awareness informed by environmental ethics and science.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2014
FD 2014-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20231
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20231
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024