{"title":"Literature and nature: a dictionaric approach","authors":"Philippe Chométy, Jérôme Lamy","doi":"10.51777/relief19410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19410","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of “lit&nature” makes it possible to bring to light an international corpus of hybrid texts with an uncertain and poorly identified status, neither truly “scientific” nor truly “literary”, which bear the mark of a tension between two modes of knowledge of nature. Taking note of the main difficulties which still prevent the development of a general critical method which allows us to think about this tension, the authors of the Dictionnaire de litt&nature (to be published by Classiques Garnier in 2025) propose to contribute, with a group of authors, to the effort to theorize the inscription of natural knowledge in literature. The genre of the dictionary is particularly suitable for this.","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 41","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L’esprit géographique dans les romans de Xavier-Laurent Petit : l’appel du dehors","authors":"Florence Gille-Dahy","doi":"10.51777/relief19403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19403","url":null,"abstract":"Travel literature for young people provides an opportunity to follow the construction of identity around a double didactic knot: the here and the elsewhere. Geographical space is a key element of the novel, and places are the foundation of the narrative. As part of a humanist heritage, the writer creates a journey and an experience of the living: space and species. Xavier-Laurent Petit's work naturally suggests to readers that they belong to the world. In this literary geography, the author weaves together the perceived, experienced and represented space. He highlights landscapes and a geographical gaze that is very reminiscent of Kenneth White's geopoetic approach. This approach anchors our thinking in a triple perspective: scientific, philosophical and poetic. What is this world we live in? This question seems to be entirely contained in this call from the outside and the experience of movement. At the frontier between literature and geography, and drawing on different types of knowledge about the living world around us, travel writing for young readers has the power to question the world. Through language, it gives a space, a landscape, and even sometimes a path to read.","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can we make an ecopoetic reading of La Fontaine’s Fables?","authors":"L. Bergot","doi":"10.51777/relief19408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19408","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we would like to demonstrate that it is possible to renew the teaching of the Fables through an ecopoetic study, which would enable us to approach our contemporary concerns about ecology in a different way, through the prism of an ancient language and thought. Based on a selection of around forty fables, we will propose a several lines of reflection in order to highlight the ecological – or, more precisely, paleo-ecological – awareness at work in La Fontaine’s corpus. La Fontaine speaks of animal suffering, anthropization and the disruption of ecosystems. Although the words are not the same, the terms La Fontaine uses in his poetry (\"demeure\", \"naturel\", etc.) serve to speak of the relationship between humans and living things.","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Acquiring knowledge in the field rather than exclusively at school\". Interview with Rachel Bouvet","authors":"Aude Jeannerod, Morgane Leray, Olivier Sécardin","doi":"10.51777/relief19399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19399","url":null,"abstract":"For Rachel Bouvet, literary studies are reinvented through contact with other disciplines: geography, for a geopoetic approach to texts, but also the life sciences, for a global approach to plants. More broadly, it is through movement, exploration and encounters with otherness that the researcher intends to bring literary research and creation into dialogue. Rachel Bouvet is a professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She first worked on spaces and places in literature as part of a geopoetic approach, before turning her attention to the relationship between literature and botany. She co-founded La Traversée - Atelier de géopoétique, as well as GRIVE (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le végétal et l'environnement). With Stéphanie Posthumus, she co-directed the volume Mouvantes et émouvantes. Les plantes à travers le récit (Presses universitaires de Montréal, 2024).","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The robinsonnade: a \"pre-text\" for reading and writing about nature in elementary school","authors":"Kathy Similowski","doi":"10.51777/relief19405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19405","url":null,"abstract":"Literature not only contributes to the formation of a literary culture, but also to the construction of the reader’s personality and the expression of his or her sensibility. While nature has always been strongly represented in children’s books, ecological concerns are now finding their way into the most recent works aimed at this readership. The robinsonnade genre, born of countless rewritings of Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, is undoubtedly the literary genre that offers the most direct way of seeing and thinking about nature. This contribution explores the robinsonnades and their power to evoke the living. Works are read in class by pupils at the end of elementary school in order to produce texts. The aim is to describe nature, but also to initiate reflection on the relationship between human beings and their environment. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ‘Shakespearean’ roots of Stendhal’s forests","authors":"Ferdinand Breffi","doi":"10.51777/relief19409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19409","url":null,"abstract":"The ecopoetic approach examines the suggestive power of the forest as a major setting in Stendhal's last completed fictions, written in 1838 and 1839. By identifying the progressive layers in the construction of such an object, this analysis will reveal the intimate relationship between the author and the image of the forest, and how this personal construction intertwines with his own Shakespearean imagination. What particular suggestive power does the forest possess under the novelist's pen? How can we understand the use of this natural space in fiction, and where do we draw the line between the possible referential function of the place and its poetic power, which paradoxically only becomes apparent to the reader of the novel when the author's own imagination is taken into account?","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 28","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Sand's Mauprat: an ecological tale? For an ecopoetic reading of chapter IV.","authors":"Adrien Peuple","doi":"10.51777/relief19406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19406","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter IV of the novel Mauprat distinguishes itself by an ecopoetic dimension aimed at denouncing Bernard de Mauprat’s ecological crime through the murder of the Patience’s owl. To this end, Sand uses the poetic codes of the fairy tale as literary material to sensitize the reader to Bernard's reprehensible crime. Indeed, Sand uses the topical motif of the punishment scene, inflicted on the tale's heroes by a sorcerer or fairy, to inscribe a didactic message in favour of respect for animals and environment. She also uses the terrifying setting of the wood to offer an eye-opening experience that invites Bernard to discover the supernatural powers of nature and become aware of its smallness. Thenceforth, the punishment scene is transformed into an ontological experience that leads the story to rediscover the origins of myth through the folkloric motifs of the tale. This aesthetic experience responds to Jean-Christophe Cavallinés recent ecopoetic vow: the ecology of story aims to return to an archaic world, reconnecting the human to the environment.","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Idées et Sensations and the Journal des Goncourt in the Brazilian press","authors":"Z. Gama","doi":"10.51777/relief19412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19412","url":null,"abstract":"This article reconstructs the means by which the diary of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt circulated in Brazil from its publication in the 19th century to the present day. It is the result of research carried out in the Brazilian press, where we observe the reworking of the texts from Idées et Sensations and the Journal des Goncourt, works inspired by their diary manuscripts, or the arrangement of their memoirs of literary life. Some passages from the Goncourts' daily writings are translated and read in a press column created to disseminate them, as a physiology or almost inexhaustible source of Parisian history in the second half of the 19th century, with a focus on social life and the beginnings of the Goncourt Academy.","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deux romans d’apprentissage écologiques au féminin : lecture comparée de La Petite Fadette (1849) et The Mill on the Floss (1860)","authors":"Apolline Pernet","doi":"10.51777/relief19407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19407","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a joint re-reading of George Sand's La Petite Fadette and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss as ecological coming-of-age novels. On the one hand, the rich and dynamic representation of a natural environment is compared with portraits of women in movement. Secondly, we examine how the two heroines’ learning process results in decisive conflicts between animal instincts and moral imperatives. A number of ideas are then put forward for teaching these two novels at secondary school level, by linking the environmental issue to social issues and a reflection on gender.","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141833364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building narrative huts, reading in the active voice in secondary school","authors":"Évelyne Roux","doi":"10.51777/relief19404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19404","url":null,"abstract":"In her book Croire aux fauves, Nastassja Martin recounts her encounter with the wild world. This initiatory tale is part of what Jean-Christophe Cavallin, in his climatic map of literature, has called the pole of otherness. There are a number of advantages to offering it as a cursive reading to secondary school pupils, since as well as being an autobiographical story, a genre favoured by teenagers, it can help to transform their representations. In this article, we will first show that the reader is confronted with a narrative that imposes a triple displacement: geographical, anthropological and ontological. We will then consider the ways in which readers can become part of an ecocritical literary transmission. Finally, we will look at the possibility of constructing narrative huts, textual shelters as well as places capable of housing the beginnings of a new literary and ecological paradigm.","PeriodicalId":510434,"journal":{"name":"RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE","volume":" 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141832933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}