La sanctuarisation de la wilderness chez Jim Harrison et Thomas McGuane : entre romantisme et contre-romantisme
In this paper, I intend to examine how Jim Harrison et Thomas McGuane display an original mode of depiction, hesitating between romanticism and counter-romanticism, thus revisiting the traditional representation of nature in their texts of fiction and non-fiction. Harrison and McGuane tend to use in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Caliban: French Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/3603 |
| Summary: | In this paper, I intend to examine how Jim Harrison et Thomas McGuane display an original mode of depiction, hesitating between romanticism and counter-romanticism, thus revisiting the traditional representation of nature in their texts of fiction and non-fiction. Harrison and McGuane tend to use intertextuality to reinvent new means of writing nature, in particular nature when perceived as wild and alien. Their two writing styles often concur in so far as they both reflect a position that is respectful of literary traditions and generally of the representation of untouched landscapes, and at the same time playfully irreverent. In several texts, Harrison and McGuane acknowledge their debt to romanticism, pay homage to modernism, and remain faithful to the idea that areas of wildnerness should be construed as separate and may function as a shelter or even as a space of regeneration; however, these texts also partly work toward undermining or even deconstructing our vision of a sanctuarized wilderness. |
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| ISSN: | 2425-6250 2431-1766 |