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MANS RETURN TO NATURE: AN ECOCRITICAL cost TO TOURNIERS VENDREDI OU LES LIMBES DU PACIFIQUE by RACHEL A. KLUE (Under the Direction of Jonathan F. Krell) ABSTRACT Ecocriticism, a holistic start out to publications that seeks to examine the relationship between public and his environment, maintains that literature cannot be approached in a way that sets man and genius in opposition to each other. Instead, it must be approached in a way that examines man as part of an ecosystem; he is neither master nor slave to it, but simply wizard part of an intricate system. In Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, a contemporary interpretation of Robinson Crusoe, Michel Tournier shows us that if man is to be complete and content, he cannot pass on to view himself as existing apart from the natural world. He must instead begin to view himself as be part of the entire ecological system. Tournier demonstrates that if the natural world is to survive, man cannot continue to overpower his surroundings; he must image to live in harmony with them.

INDEX WORDS:

Michel Tournier, Robinson Crusoe, ecocriticism, ecology in literature

MANS RETURN TO NATURE: AN ECOCRITICAL APPROACH TO TOURNIERS VENDREDI OU LES LIMBES DU PACIFIQUE

by

RACHEL A. KLUE B.A.



, SUNY Brockport, 2005

A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of gallium in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree

MASTER OF ARTS

ATHENS, GEORGIA 2008

© 2008 Rachel A. Klue all(a) Rights Reserved

MANS RETURN TO NATURE: AN ECOCRITICAL APPROACH TO TOURNIERS VENDREDI OU LES LIMBES DU PACIFIQUE

by

RACHEL A. KLUE

Major Professor: Committee:

Jonathan F. Krell Betty Jean Craige Timothy Raser

electronic Version Approved: Maureen Grasso Dean of the Graduate School The University of gallium August 2008

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