« From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace.
This paper focuses on the novel Being Dead (1999) by British contemporary novelist Jim Crace. Examining more specifically the staging of the slow decomposition of its main characters’ corpses, it shows that death is described as a durative process that highlights the animality and corporality of the...
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| description | This paper focuses on the novel Being Dead (1999) by British contemporary novelist Jim Crace. Examining more specifically the staging of the slow decomposition of its main characters’ corpses, it shows that death is described as a durative process that highlights the animality and corporality of the human subject. It then contends that the two protagonists’ embodiment and embeddedness appear as the condition of a paradoxical materialist and ecological transcendence. The novel is hence interpreted as an attempt to deliver a non-idealistic afterlife narrative that reverses the axiology according to which reduction to matter is akin to metaphysical humiliation. The paper finally argues that in doing so, Being Dead reads as a contemporary bio-ecological narrative of comfort that renews the ancient genre of consolatio. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-440da5e742e046bdbda7ef37117bc5a32023-06-07T12:21:15ZengUniversité Toulouse - Jean JaurèsMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone2108-65592023-01-012710.4000/miranda.51851« From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace.Marie Cazaban-MazerollesThis paper focuses on the novel Being Dead (1999) by British contemporary novelist Jim Crace. Examining more specifically the staging of the slow decomposition of its main characters’ corpses, it shows that death is described as a durative process that highlights the animality and corporality of the human subject. It then contends that the two protagonists’ embodiment and embeddedness appear as the condition of a paradoxical materialist and ecological transcendence. The novel is hence interpreted as an attempt to deliver a non-idealistic afterlife narrative that reverses the axiology according to which reduction to matter is akin to metaphysical humiliation. The paper finally argues that in doing so, Being Dead reads as a contemporary bio-ecological narrative of comfort that renews the ancient genre of consolatio.http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/51851Jim Cracecorpsedeathtranscendanceecologyconsolatio |
| spellingShingle | Marie Cazaban-Mazerolles « From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace. Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone Jim Crace corpse death transcendance ecology consolatio |
| title | « From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace. |
| title_full | « From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace. |
| title_fullStr | « From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace. |
| title_full_unstemmed | « From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace. |
| title_short | « From Zoo. To Bot. » : putréfaction de l’animal humain et transcendance écologique dans Being Dead de Jim Crace. |
| title_sort | from zoo to bot putrefaction de l animal humain et transcendance ecologique dans being dead de jim crace |
| topic | Jim Crace corpse death transcendance ecology consolatio |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/51851 |
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