Place aux betes ! Oikos et animalite en littérature

Abstract

An animal and literary study with an original interdisciplinary base, the zoopoetics not only allows to approach the animal nature of humans, but also to question the possibility for creative language to express the non-human relationships in the world. This thesis, less paradoxical than it may seem, leads to a consideration of literature as art of displacement or decentering. After having re-situated the French zoopoetics in the history of ecocriticism and of the Anglo-saxon Animal Studies, the essay will show how a living poetics is a matter of perspectives, of rhythms and forms. The conclusion will allude to the political dimension of a zoopoetics which is also, always, a zoopoethics