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The Ecopoetics of War book cover

1st Edition

The Ecopoetics of War

Edited By Sylvain Belluc, Isabelle Brasme, Guillaume Tanguy Copyright 2025
222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Ecopoetics of War explores the interrelationality of human and nonhuman entities in the context of conflict, as recorded in literature and culture. This collection of essays demonstrates the specific and fertile role of literature in representations of war, as it foregrounds the manifold ways in which the borders between human and nonhuman—including flora,fauna, and technology—become... Read more

Introduction

Sylvain Belluc, Isabelle Brasme, and Guillaume Tanguy 

PART I

Distributive Agency, Shared Vulnerability, and Decomposition

1 Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Stories and Essays: The Bitterness of a “Cynic” or the Insight of a Neo-Materialist?

Marie-Odile Salati

2 Between Safety and Conflict: War and Nature in a Few Poems of the First World War

Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt

3 Fantasized Muddy Landscapes: William Faulkner’s World War I

Frédérique Spill

PART II

Resilience, Recomposition, and Reconsideration

4 Plotting the Blitzscape: from Representation to Composition in Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra

5 Knocking on Delville Wood: The Destruction of Natural Elements during World War I and the Construction of a South African Memory

Gilles Teulié

6 “A Prophetic Vision of the Past:” The Nature of War in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des Derniers Gestes (2002)

Carine Mardorossian

7 The Dissenting Ecology of War Writing: Capitalocene and Ecocide in the Iraq War Fiction of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Roy Scranton

Julien Brugeron

PART III

Technopoetics


8 The Corpse in the Garden: War and Nature in American Literature, from Walt Whitman to James Ellroy     

Benoît Tadié

9 Knights on Wheels: Chivalry and Horsepower in the American Ambulance Corps

Daniel Bowman

10 Submarine Optics in Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop

Rachel Murray

Biography

Sylvain Belluc is Senior Lecturer in British History and Literature at Nîmes University and Researcher at Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France.

Isabelle Brasme is Professor of British Literature at the University of Burgundy, France.

Guillaume Tanguy is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France.

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