L'expérience du paysage dans les Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde de Pierre Morency
Pierre Morency’s trilogy Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde, a great attempt at describing America’s nature, finds its roots in an experience of the landscape, where a subjective conscience discovers itself while discovering at the same time the concrete world of nature. In this thesis, I will start by presenting how the poetry of Morency has evolved from a radically subjective lyricism, founded on the exploration of a fantasized inwardness, to a lyricism turned more towards the exterior reality and that privileges prose poetry, announcing the landscape experience that founds the trilogy Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde. Afterwards, I will analyse the different modes of application of this landscape experience, notably the particular relationship that the subject maintains with his environment, the setting of an art of seeing and living, and the writing of accounts that express this subjective adventure.
Pierre Morency Perception Nature Landscape Poetry Lyricism Narrative Environment