Ecopoetic Perspectives in Charles Joisten: From the Fantasy Tale to the Urban Garden
Abstract
The legacy of folk tales and “récits de croyance” acquires in Charles Joisten’s narrative an ecopoetic value from which we can identify an oral tradition in communion with geographical imaginaries. This paper proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of four contemporary literary gardens, located in Grenoble (France), inspired, according to the results obtained, by the collections Êtres fantastiques des Alpes (2005) and Contes populaires du Dauphiné (1971). These gardens have been conceived according to local environmental conditions, allowing nature and culture to intermingle in the urban space. By exploring the interfaces between folklore and fantasy, myth and ecology, this study questions the traditional role of the fairy and the wyvern. Represented in the hydraulic, vegetal and stone elements of urban gardens, these creatures provide an innovative means of exploring the representation of nature through fantasy. The ecopoetic textual analysis of these adaptations sheds light on the author’s narrative dynamics and ecological thinking.
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