Pastoral Womanscapes (Baudelaire, Tournier, Jablonka)
Exploring how literary texts frequently mediate man's relationship to the environment by relocating and recasting nature in the female form—a rhetorical move Annette Kolodny calls the male ‘pastoral impulse’—this article focuses on the role played by gender in the pastoral. The trope of ‘womans...
| Publié dans: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009. - 113(2018), 2, Seite 321-337 |
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| Format: | Article en ligne |
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2018
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| Accès à la collection: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies |
| Sujets: | Arts Social sciences Physical sciences Environmental studies |
| Résumé: | Exploring how literary texts frequently mediate man's relationship to the environment by relocating and recasting nature in the female form—a rhetorical move Annette Kolodny calls the male ‘pastoral impulse’—this article focuses on the role played by gender in the pastoral. The trope of ‘womanscape’ animates in rather surprising ways Baudelaire's poem ‘La Géante’, Michel Tournier's novel Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, and Ivan Jablonka's work Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes. I examine how this pervasive topos has served as an enabling fiction for thinking about gender, nature, and how we carve up the spaces we inhabit. |
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| ISSN: | 22224297 |