French Ecopoetry – French Undergraduate Class

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This PPT (in French) is used in week 8 of the module French Poetry: From Romanticism to Slam (BA French, Year 2), a class which focuses on eco-poetry, drawing connections between 19th-century representations of nature and contemporary poetic responses to the climate crisis. This module introduces key movements—romanticism, symbolism, surrealism, Oulipo, eco-poetry, and slam—exploring how poets have engaged with existential, philosophical, political, and social issues. While studying major French poets, we also examine lesser-known poet-activists, particularly in Class 8’s focus on eco-poets. The course highlights poetry as a vehicle for expression and resistance, culminating in an online discussion with a French poet who engages with the climate crisis in his current work.

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Marion Krauthaker

Marion Krauthaker (marion.krauthaker@universityofgalway.ie) is a Lecturer Above the Bar at the university of Galway (Ireland). She originally specialised on representations of gender and sexuality as well as mechanisms of power and marginalisation in French literature and culture, especially women’s writings. Her more recent work has turned towards less known and neglected female rural writers from the Cantal area. With the support of a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Grant, she has carried out a project entitled ‘Reclaiming ‘Secondary Zone’ Female Voices towards a Remapping of Literary France’. She has recently published further articles looking at the representations of rurality and rural femininity and his currently preparing a monograph on ecofeminism in the works of these writers.

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