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In this interview, landscape architect and author Céline Baumann explores how to design spaces that take into account the sexuality of plants and allow humans to consider their own desires in more vegetal ways. In conversation with this issue's editors, Baumann shows that an attention to the interconnectedness of plant and human bodies can become a means of promoting gender diversity, generating alternative narratives of plant/human exchange, and revising longstanding colonialist and nationalist ideas about the 'proper' place of plants in human history and human cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the construction of postcolonial womanhood through an ecocritical lens in Taos Amrouche's Solitude ma mère. I focus on the three main ways the protagonist, Aména, considers vegetal being as a metaphor for womanhood: first, as a form of pure potential; second, as a mode of failure when blooming does not occur; and finally, as a re-appropriation of this failure, a feminist and indigenous form of refusal in a colonial context. Amrouche's use of gardening tropes invokes Romanticism and the pathetic fallacy, yet, as I show, Aména's lived experience as a racialized woman complicates Amrouche's novelistic assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines eroticized woman-plant analogies within libertine texts and questions how becoming-plant both interfaces with, and enacts control over, feminine sexual subjects in and across Anglophone and Francophone contexts. First exploring feminine vegetal libertinism in Vincent Miller's The Man-Plant (1752) through Julien de la Mettrie's L'Homme-plante (1748), and then attending to the queerly desiring, plantlike body and the covert pleasures of its concealment in Anne Carson's poem "The Albertine Workout" (2014) through Marcel Proust's La prisonnière (1923), this article dwells upon a morbidly alluring becoming-plant that alternately espouses masculinist fantasies of possession and multiplies trajectories for oblique, feminine-vegetal sexual delights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's insights regarding Rousseau's analysis in the nature of love. It mentions that Rousseau differentiate the French libertinism and materialist philosophy on their views on fundamental passivity on human emotional life. It adds that Rousseau incorporate Aristotle's affective habits in conceptualizing love in his own self expression of human emotions.

Looks into the work of novelist Claude Crébillon. The study of jealousy in his works that reveals a number of insights into the libertine figure; Definition of the libertine figure; Study of Crébillon's hybrid novel, "Les Heureux Orphelins"; Situation of novel existing in three forms: a third-person narrative, a memoir novel, and an epistolary novel; Predominance of jealousy and the emotions that accompany it in this epistolary narrative; Characterization of the rest of Cre´billon's writings; Jealousy which appears in some form or another in all of his novels.

Presents information on the classic novels related to libertine philosophy. Looking through the references in-and to-various texts where one can compile a catalogue of the ideal libertine library; Danger of Reading; Reading as a way to give away too much about oneself or to abandon one's usual behaviour; Novelist Jean-Paul Marat's posthumous novel, "Les Aventures du jeune comte Potowski," and its depiction of a virtuous character Sophie Bajoski, who wishes to corrupt a virtuous young man; Pictures in the books that provoke amorous desires; Arousal of the characters in libertine novels by the text they read.

Looks into the works of various novelists. Enjoyment by novelists of the studies of disruptive or subversive figures by which they analysed the racist, sexist, and homophobic discourses in order to understand the semiotic work done by such figures as the Negro; Striking achievements of poststructuralist thought; Extention of the novelists' work to the figure of the Libertine; The title of the novel "Françaises', ne faites plus un effort," by novelist Luce Irigaray, which speaks to women; The enunciative fiction in the body of the text as an address to "maitres-libertins"; One of the defining traits of the libertines' art as its seriality.