Environmental Crisis and Activism in Contemporary French Poetry

MAterial for a two 2-hour sessions as part of a team-taught module called the Art of Reading which is taught in the MA in International Contemporary Literature and Media. This section explores how contemporary French poetry engages with the environmental crisis, using language to challenge dominant discourses. Students conduct close readings of ecopoetry by Thibault Marthouret, Hortense Raynal, Yves Bonnefoy, Sébastien Fevry, and Lune Villemin, analyzing critiques of anthropocentrism and alternative ecological perspectives.