Journal article
Pastoral Womanscapes (Baudelaire, Tournier, Jablonka)
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 142.6KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.5699/modelangrevi.113.2.0321
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- Publisher:
- Modern Humanities Research Association
- Journal:
- Modern Language Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 113
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 321-337
- Publication date:
- 2018-04-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-16
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- ISSN:
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0026-7937
- Pubs id:
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pubs:708774
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pubs:708774
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708774
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2017-07-20
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- © Modern Humanities Research Association 2018
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Modern Humanities Research Association at: https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.113.2.0321
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