(Dark) Ecologies in French Literature, Thought, and Film

Harvard FAS

What is the place of the human within nature? How are cultural concepts of what is ‘natural’ or ‘artificial’ reflected in and shaped by texts from different periods? Where do our ideas about ecology and climate today have their roots? How can a text, or a film, be ‘ecological’? In this course, we will investigate a range of literary, critical, and filmic texts from across a wide timespan, exploring the diversity but also sometimes surprising continuity of…