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Robidoux-Daigneault, Camille. "De Pas pire à Pour sûr : faits et effets des langues chez France Daigle." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16125.
Full textThe literature of Southeast Acadie emerges in a context that is already heterolingual (Grutman). Chiac, the local vernacular, bears traces of this linguistic coexistence since its hybrid character reflects the strong interaction between the region’s communities. However, does its use arouses an anxious reflection on Moncton’s diglossic context or is it strictly creative? This thesis focuses on the relationship to language in the recent novels of France Daigle, Pas pire (1998), Un fin passage (2001), Petites difficultés d’existence (2002) and Pour sûr (2011), by uncovering sociolinguistic features and the way the text "speaks the language" (Gauvin). Although it puts away ideologies, Daigle's work remains highly sensitive to the cultural context from which it emerges. Thus, if the work is freed from a sociolinguistic realism, it is to create a "linguistic fiction" (Baetens Beardsmore) which reconfigures the social imaginary of Moncton while incorporating some "real" concerns. Moreover, taking into account the structural polyphony of the work overcomes the temptation of ethnographic reading.
Labelle, Maude. "Une esthétique hyperréaliste en littérature? : narrativité picturale et langage visuel dans l'œuvre romanesque de Suzanne Jacob (1991-2005)." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3710.
Full textThis Master's thesis studies the concept of hyperrealism in the context of contemporary literature. It focuses more specifically on the ways it is expressed in three novels written by Suzanne Jacob : L'Obéissance (1991), Rouge mère et fils (2001) and Fugueuses (2005). An overview of the history and theoretical aspects of pictural art is essential to understand hyperrealism for the latter is intertwined with this art form. When taking a closer look at the hyperrealistic novel, one will notice the abundance of media references (i.e. pictural art, photography, cinema, music, television, sculpture, architecture and literature). This occurrence of multiple medias and the depiction of the real through mediated representations are essential components of hyperrealistic works. Style and narrative are intimately related to these medias and art forms. The Hyperrealist novel hence will feature complex and particular narrative structures characterized by juxtaposed focalizations, narrative fragments and importance given to fine detail. Finally, the hyperrealist novel employs continuity and fragmentation. It features characters and author composing with these complex representations wich will eventually lead them to demonstrate skepticism and doubt when apprehending the real.
Beaulieu, Geneviève. "Ophélie & Solitude, folie et réinventions de la réalité dans la littérature fantastique." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11960.
Full textSavoie-Bernard, Chloé. "Traverser l'immobile : le déplacement dans le Journal de Marie Uguay." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11965.
Full textThis dissertation focuses on the Journal of the Quebecoise poet Marie Uguay. It recuperates among other critical texts Pierre Nepveu’s study of space as well as contemporary landscape theories. It examines how the idea of motion enables a sensitive relationship with the environment inhabited by the writer. Uguay was suffering from bone cancer and this condition determined the distinctive way in which she conceived space in her intimist literature. The first chapter looks at the dialectic between inside and outside. From the reclusion of her Montreal apartment, the writer imagines numerous travels. The second chapter revisits the actual spaces in which the author is moving. Finally, the third chapter considers how a comparable way of conceiving space can bear an intelletual association between Uguay and the poets Saint-Denys Garneau et Albert Lozeau. It also looks at how the figure of Marie Uguay reappears in contemporary literature throught a relation of space.
Zhang, Ziao. "La représentation des communautés culturelles dans les récits de Gabrielle Roy." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22010.
Full textDesmeules, Jarryd. "Le miroir brisé : le délire à l’œuvre dans Trou de mémoire et L’Antiphonaire d’Hubert Aquin." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3558.
Full textThis paper treats the question of insanity in Hubert Aquin’s novels. It studies two novels specifically: Trou de mémoire and L’Antiphonaire. Subsequently, the object of this study is that of two distinct mental illnesses: psychotic delirium (which is displayed in Trou de mémoire) and epilepsy (which is displayed in L’Antiphonaire). The subject of mental or neurological disease is approached both from a thematic and structural point of view. Even if the majority of this paper is dedicated to covering the thematic aspect of the question, the analysis of the novels structure is fundamental since one of the primary hypotheses is that the effect of mental illness reflects upon the narrative structure of both Aquin’s novels. The hypotheses proposed at the beginning are confirmed by numerous elements extracted from a number of non literary sources. As well as calling upon medical information and texts more closely linked to psychology, this research delves into the history of epilepsy, contrasting the common beliefs shared during the renaissance and those more prevalent today. Although this study borrows from numerous scientific fields, it is also interested in one aspect only lightly reviewed by those who study the theme of insanity in Aquin’s works : its impact on the narrative structure of the novels.
Martineau, Julien. "C’est ici que le verbe habiter s’est déchiré ; suivi de Sudbury : l’habitabilité de la poésie chez Patrice Desbiens." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8463.
Full textComposed of narrative and poetic fragments, C’est ici que le verbe habiter s’est déchiré follows the journey of a young man returning to his hometown, Québec. While wandering in the streets, but also through his own memories, the narrator will find on his path the point of rupture between past and present. C’est ici que le verbe habiter s’est déchiré proposes a reflexion on these places and times that, even if over, seem to never abandon us, all within a style of writing where silence is sometimes as eloquent as speech. As it’s name indicates, Sudbury: l’habitabilité de la poésie chez Patrice Desbiens is an essay regarding poetry as a living space within the poem Sudbury from Patrice Desbiens, a work that stages the daily routine of a small town in northern Ontario. Confronted to a cold and deserted place where nothing seems to subsist, within this town that he depicts at the same time as artificial, violent and unlivable, Desbiens seems to believe that only writing is authentic and bearer of truth. Hence, by entitling his work Sudbury, the name of the town where he lives, does the poet not present himself as the genuine author of the place? Does he not give a meaning to something that, before, was deprived of one? Is there not, in the end, a substitution of the opressive urban space for the one, more welcoming, of poetry?
Morin, Fannie. "Pour une poétique du silence : transmédialité théâtrale et passage à la plateforme cinématographique dans le Québec contemporain : le cas de Bashir Lazhar." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22004.
Full textVaillancourt, Jean-François. "Bleu rouge bleu rouge bleu, suivi de Le monde dit du six; parole et narration dans Numéro six d’Hervé Bouchard." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22009.
Full textMorissette, Jessica. "Feu, suivi de Sophie Calle : soi en négatif." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11129.
Full textFeu is an autofictional photo-text collection in which I revisited memories from a past relationship after a fire destroyed everything. Among a serie of short episodes, I tried to transmit the different emotions felt while mourning and to show my obsession for both the fire and my ex companion. I kept turning over souvenirs in a self-centered way until it lead to a deep emotional uneasiness. It started resorbing the moment an opening to others was made, but never ended. Pictures are used to illustrate the words as well as to participate in the exposure of loneliness. In addition to a few sub-headings relating my project to Sophie Calle’s work, I tempted to recuperate some of her characteristic traits. Sophie Calle: Soi en négatif is an essay about the self-performance. It involves an autobiographic contract between the performer and the public, a network of intertextuality and in this case, specific concepts like otherness, mourning and absence. I tried to show how she managed to expose herself by the negative. Not only does she take advantage of the most painful negative moments of her life and the ones of others, but she also reveals herself only through documents or others. In a way, her words and her photos develop her life contained into her personal archives. When she exposes herself, art blows way beyond literature, cinema, interviews and photography to because a self-performance, in negative.
Dionne, Marie-Eve. "Nom propre et roman chez Suzanne Jacob." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10291.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the use of names in four novels written by Quebec's author Suzanne Jacob : Laura Laur (1983), La Passion selon Galatée (1987), Rouge, mère et fils (2001) and Fugueuses (2005). Suzanne Jacob thinks that reality is made from conventions. Based on this idea, this thesis confronts the hypothesis that names are fictitious. Using narratological and pragmatical methodologies, this analysis, made of microtext readings, focuses on the characters' and narrators' comments on names, in addition to identifying processes that highlight names functionality on a semantic and syntactic point of view. This means that names will be addressed based on the network of the text’s different signs, and will not be considered as an isolated signifier. The study is divided in three chapters dedicated to structural problems about names in Jacob's novels : « The ubiquity of the name », « The instability of the name » and « The name performed ? » From these three axes, the reflection opens to broader issues concerning identity as well as social and familial relationships.
Tomaszewski, Marc. "De l'idéal au désenchantement : l'évolution du discours régionaliste chez Harry Bernard (1898-1979) de 1924 à 1951." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13757.
Full textPerron-Nadeau, Florent. "Une littérature du décloisonnement : la construction de la figure de l'écrivain et du littéraire dans Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer et Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? de Dany Laferrière." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13761.
Full textDany Laferrière, recently admitted to the prestigious Académie française, has produced a considerable work in the past thirty years. Two of his first novels, Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer and Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? are characterised by a rich and varied intertextuality. The thread of the narrative of these two novels is built by fragments. In the first text, a fictional writer is working on a novel titled Paradis du dragueur nègre. In the second novel, we find the same writer, but he travels through the United States in order to write a report on America. In both cases, we find staged writing by a fictional writer who has many similarities to Laferrière himself. The reader witnesses the construction of the story he is reading through an original « autobiographical novel ». In fact, there are many resemblances, even correspondences, between the two stories. Both Laferrière's novel themes, style and genre, are part of a « genealogy » of texts that can be grouped into literary « families ». We will then try, in the following research, to define and understand the role of theses « families » and illustrate how the appropriation of these texts allows the author to be inspired and to question these texts from the past. We will therefore study the intertextual references of these literary « families » in the first two chapters of our research and then study more specifically the construction of the figure of the writer and his literary space through these two novels. KEY WORDS : Dany Laferrière ; intertextuality ; autofiction ; contemporary novel ; Quebec literature.
Villemure, Caroline. "« L’empêchement moteur » : les fonctions des procédés métatextuels dans l’œuvre d’Hervé Bouchard." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22501.
Full textThéroux, Alain. "La Sociétose suivi de L’illusion du média en direct dans Les Sorcières de la République de Chloé Delaume." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24215.
Full textThis project offers an analysis of the feminist and memorial dystopia Les Sorcières de la République, a novel by Chloé Delaume focusing on a live media broadcast staged by the author. Our goal will be to determine what effect this illusion can produce in the static format of a book, as was our scriptural intention with La Sociétose, a short anticipatory novel presented in this essay. Among others, the philosophers Giorgio Agamben and Tzvetan Todorov, will guide our reflection, in the first case, on what we supposed to be the critical intentions of Chloé Delaume, towards contemporary institutions, in a goal of denunciation by profanation. In a second section underlining language strategies, the Bulgarian critic Todorov will show us how magic speech intervene in the course of the central characters. Our creative project joins Les Sorcières of Chloé Delaume in many ways. La Sociétose tells the story of an anthropolinguist, Milénia Bernard, known worldwide for having created an inclusive language. For no apparent reason the government appoints Milénia, in 2067, to manage a high-level state organization intended to eradicate this language. Throughout the story, this contradictory character will be the subject of a series of special live programs in the context of fiery linguistic debates while a riot is to be prepared by fanatics. The two stories, La Sociétose an Les Sorcières complete each other in our research and creation work
Poulin, Mathieu. "Citer la révolte : la reprise québécoise du discours de la décolonisation francophone." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3753.
Full textRefering to the theories of Genette, Compagnon and Morawski's on quotation and intertextuality, this thesis compares two distinct, yet complementary, body of works: the major essays written by Hubert Aquin, Gaston Miron and the young intellectuals who collaborated to Parti Pris are analyzed as rewriting (or rethinking) of the works of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Albert Memmi, figureheads of the francophone decolonization movement. The main objective of this study is to investigate the bases on which Québécois intellectuals attempted to justify their recuperation of the discourse of decolonization, and how this discourse shaped their reflection towards redefining Québec nationalism, as well as promoting its diffusion. Articulated around three principal axes – cultural identity, language conflicts and the role of literature and the writer in the struggle for national emancipation –, this thesis shows that the creation of such a symbolic partnership has enabled Québec to join the community of francophone nations.
Chénier, Valérie. "Les marques de modernité dans Les Fridolinades de Gratien Gélinas." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21992.
Full textAura, Patrick. "Toryism reconstructed : the relationship between T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker and Canadian Imperialists." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25448.
Full textUsing Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s The Clockmaker, this work examines how literature informs understandings of the past and ideas of the present. This is an analysis of how the Toryism of certain late 19th-century Canadian Imperialists (Stephen Leacock, G.M. Grant, and Andrew Macphail) was influenced by The Clockmaker. These Imperialists were ideologues who imagined a greater role for Canada within the British Empire. The contention is that Haliburton’s work, although highly problematic today, is nonetheless important to analyze for the popularity and influence it had at other historical moments, and specifically for the ways it helped revive – through satirical rhetoric, caricatures, and politically-charged writing – a dying form of Toryism that the Imperialists adopted into their thought in multiple ways. This allowed the Canadian Imperialists to develop a vision of Canada in-line with the times while relying on an element of Tory culture that had a sound historical background. The Clockmaker expounds similar ideas to those of the Imperialists: strong British ties, anti-Americanism, an added socio-political weight to the Dominion, etc. It is hardly surprising, then, that Grant himself noted Haliburton’s influence on him and his fellow thinkers’ conceptual framing of imperialism in Canada. Studying Haliburton’s values, their expression in The Clockmaker, and the way the Imperialists’ works reflect the ideas and rhetorical tools of the novel, this study creates a continuity between The Clockmaker and those nationalists who sought legitimacy in the past when imagining the traditions of a fledgling country. This study examines how literature, beyond being modeled by its present, becomes the highly-interpretable history that informs said present.
Lamy-Beaupré, Renaud. "À la mémoire d'Émile... suivi de Entre silence et décadence : l'œuvre d'André Béland." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10692.
Full textMemorial romance, family romance, bildungsroman, autofiction… These are the concepts that inspired me in this creative research project. The starting point was a quest for identity, linked to a quest of the origins, symbolized by my unknown grandfather, a figure that I tried to demystify. Younger, I heard he had written a novel, Orage sur mon corps, which stirred in me various impressions and thwarted imaginations. I thought for example that my grandfather, Emile, had shared the ideas and mindset that circulated during the 1940s, while French Canada lived its first wave of cultural modernization. This version of the story, unfortunately, was not quite accurate. As a result of my dissatisfaction, my research progressed through an essay focusing on the work of André Béland, an author who corresponds better to the mythical figure of my grandfather. This essay is not intended to judge or to lionize the character, but to shed some light on his neglected work.
Brubacher, William. "A Hauntology of Sheila Watson's The Double Hook." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23722.
Full textThis thesis consists of a study of haunting, both at the textual and fictional level, in Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook. In this hauntology of the novel, I explore the texts and cultural archetypes that haunt Watson’s novel as well as the ghosts, spectral figures, and haunting spaces and places represented in the novel. The theoretical movement of hauntology introduced by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx is a fundamental work in contemporary studies of the tropes of the Gothic and of a more generalized haunting that threatens notions of stability in our understanding of existence. Moreover, the haunting figures and texts in Watson’s novel subvert the heterogenous conception of a national discourse in Canada. The insights provided by scholars such as Marlene Goldman, Margaret Turner, and Cynthia Sugars, who are concerned with what Watson’s use of spectral figures in her narrative accomplishes in relation to writing the settler-colonizer nation of Canada, contribute to informing my argument about the place Watson’s novel occupies in the Canadian collective imaginary. In the first chapter of this thesis, I focus on the textual hauntings in the pages of Watson’s novel. Indigenous myths, Christian rituals, conventions of the western and regional novel, and modernist texts haunt the novel’s structure, content, and the language that constitutes it. In the second chapter of this thesis, I direct my attention towards the haunting and haunted figures that exist in the world created by Watson. In both chapters, my goal is to converse with the specters I see in the novel, to give a voice to what is not explicitly said and to find what lies between the fragments of Watson’s experimental prose.
Domerson, Maureen Kim. "Stéréotypes, clichés et identités chez Dany Laferrière : l’exemple japonais." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23731.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the dynamics of clichés and stereotypes based on japanese motifs in the works of Dany Laferrière, particulary in two of his novels: Éroshima (1987) and Je suis un écrivain japonais (2009). By comparing the two novels, this study examines different intercultural perspectives whose aesthetic construction are based on the representations (images, clichés and stereotypes of sex, race and identity) of the Japanese figure. This research analyzes different theoretical and epistemological perspectives of the notions of stereotypes and clichés, while paying attention to the issues of representation in both novels. This approach allows a discussion of Alterity/Otherness which is unfolded, recycled, manipulated and distorted by the writer, and invites the reader to question the concepts of identity and the perception of the Other.
Crevier-Lalonde, Guillaume. "Déplacement, délocalisation et «dévoyage» dans quelques récits québécois contemporains." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13661.
Full textThis thesis focuses on travel and displacement writing by exploring this theme into contemporary narrative in Quebec litterature. We study Voyage en Irlande avec un parapluie and Voyage au Portugal avec un Allemand (Louis Gauthier), Vers l’Ouest (Mahigan Lepage), Dix jours en cargo (Isabelle Miron) and Le sermon aux poissons (Patrice Lessard). By stating that travels don’t relay the experience of exotism and of discovery anymore, we make the assumption that the practice of narrating this new type of travels also changes. We analyse how this dysphoric experience of the travel reflects itself into the descriptions of the places, into the construction of a narrative, and into the construction of the identity. With the works of Michel de Certeau (The Practice of Everyday Life) and of Marc Augé (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity), our analysis questions, in a first chapter, the perception of spaces and their descriptions. Then, we examine more directly how these road narratives produce continuity. The third part focus on the identity of the narrator, that tends to be constructed and deconstructed by the landscape seen on the road. By referring to the analysis of images by Georges Didi- Huberman, we examine in our conclusion how those different aspects of the texts construct a « relocation » aesthetics in which landscapes and places become screens on which it is henceforth possible for the characters to project themselves.
Beaudry, Jennifer. "Vers une scène commune : rapports croisés entre poésie et chanson chez Raoul Duguay (1966-1970)." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5063.
Full textThis thesis addresses the early works of Raoul Duguay. Our study focuses on the first two collections of poem (ruts [1966] and or le cycle du sang dure donc [1967]), while examining Duguay’s parallel production as an experimental musical artist and eventually songwriter. Hereby, our study wishes to unveil the close ties between poetry and what could be considered as its popular derivatives: songwriting. Indeed, a significant number of poets wrote songs, especially among the proponent of the counterculture. Therefore, the first chapter will present a portrayal of Quebec’s cultural history that underlies the ties between songwriters, poets and artists in general in the 1960s. Furthermore, it will lay the theoretical framework to address the song as a study object. The second chapter studies the notion of lyricism in Quebec’s early modern poetry. It will study the use of song – or singing – as a metaphor, to demonstrate how it later loses its relevancy in regard of the modern poetry, which prefers the use of speech as metaphor. This shift heralds a change of paradigm in approaching lyricism and the lyrical subject. However, it will appear that Duguay persists in using song and singing metaphors – as well as speech – as he experiences language in its vocal and oral undertone. The third chapter studies the context – Quebec’s counterculture – in which the ties between poetry and song are tighten around the question of their function. It addresses the notion of popular art and its legitimacy.
Hoffmann, Candy. "Le "sacré noir" chez Georges Bataille et Hubert Aquin." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11997.
Full textDes affinités rapprochent l’œuvre d’Hubert Aquin et celle de Georges Bataille. Ces deux auteurs explorent une voie mystique présentant de fortes similitudes, apparentée à ce que Roger Caillois appelle le « sacré gauche », c’est-à-dire le sacré impur, maléfique, dont l’accès serait donné selon Georges Bataille par la transgression, et qui correspondrait, pour reprendre l’expression bataillienne, au « moment privilégié d’unité communielle ». L’objectif de l’auteur français est de dégager l’expérience mystique de ses antécédents religieux et de rendre le phénomène de l’extase accessible à tous. La sortie de soi est rendue possible par la communication, qui implique la rupture de son intégrité et de celle d’autrui. Bien que provenant d’un horizon culturel différent, Hubert Aquin théorise également et met en scène dans et par le récit une certaine forme d’«extrême du possible » qui s’avère très proche de « l’impossible » bataillien. Cette thèse se propose de montrer en quoi les théories de « l’expérience intérieure » et de l’érotisme de Bataille éclairent tant les essais que le Journal, les romans, récits et nouvelles d’Aquin, nous amenant par la même occasion à définir les particularités de la voie mystique empruntée par l’auteur québécois, et aussi, plus généralement et plus fondamentalement, de souligner deux façons différentes d’appréhender et de vivre le refus de la transcendance : l’une, celle de Georges Bataille, qui consiste à embrasser à corps perdu la perte de Dieu et de soimême dans un formidable éclat de rire, et l’autre, celle d’Hubert Aquin, qui réside dans le tiraillement incessant et douloureux entre ce qui éloigne du Christ et ce qui rapproche de Lui. Le premier chapitre de la thèse est théorique ; il est consacré aux trois concepts qui régissent l’ensemble de notre analyse : le mysticisme, le sacré et l’érotisme. La singularité de la nouvelle théologie mystique que propose Georges Bataille dans ses textes théoriques par rapport à l’expérience mystique traditionnelle fait ensuite l’objet du deuxième chapitre. Le troisième et dernier chapitre montre les points de convergence et de divergence entre l’auteur français et l’auteur québécois et met en valeur la spécificité de l’expérience de ce dernier. Comment Hubert Aquin conçoit-t-il et représente-t-il « l’extrême du possible » dans l’ensemble de son œuvre ? C’est à cette ultime question que nous tâchons de répondre.
Affinities link Hubert Aquin’s and Georges Bataille’s writings. These two authors explore a mystic path, which presents strong similarities related to what Roger Caillois called «left sacred», that is to say the impure, malefic sacred, accessible to Georges Bataille by transgression, and which corresponds to the « privileged moment of communal unity ». The French author’s goal is to free the mystic experience from its religious background and to make ecstasy accessible to everybody. It is precisely by communicating that men can break their isolation and that of the others and reach ecstasy. Even if Hubert Aquin doesn’t share the same cultural background as Georges Bataille, he also theorizes and represents in his novels a form of « extreme of the possible », which is very close to the bataillian « impossible ». This thesis aims to show how Georges Bataille’s theories of «inner experience » and eroticism highlight Hubert Aquin’s essays, Journal and novels, leading us to define the peculiarities of the mystic experience explored by the author from Quebec, and more generally and fundamentally, to focus on two different ways to think and to live the refusal of transcendence: the first, that of Georges Bataille, which consists in embracing the loss of God and of ourselves in laughter, and the second one, that of Hubert Aquin, which consists in being ceaselessly and painfully torn between what takes away from the Christ and what moves closer to Him. The first chapter of the thesis is theoretical; it is dedicated to three key concepts for our whole analysis: mysticism, sacred and eroticism. The object of the second chapter is the peculiarity of the new mystic theology of Georges Bataille in his theoretical texts compared to the traditional mystic experience. The third and last chapter shows the points of convergence and the differences between the French author and the author from Quebec and emphasizes the specificity of the latter’s experience. How does Hubert Aquin conceive and represent «the extreme of the possible » in his writings? It is the ultimate question we try to answer in this thesis.
Charland, Thara. "Hors champ, suivi de Aquin demeure." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13758.
Full textHors champ est un recueil composé de courtes nouvelles et de poèmes proposant des réécritures d’œuvres marquantes de la littérature québécoise contemporaine de 1960 à nos jours. L’héritage littéraire est problématisé dans ce recueil par l’éclatement de la provenance des hypotextes. Ainsi, la réécriture s’effectue par la reprise de certaines caractéristiques formelles des textes sources tout en proposant de nouveaux contenus thématiques. C’est donc à plusieurs filiations que le texte se rattache, proposant du même coup non pas une postérité statique et écrasante, mais plutôt un héritage en acte, morcelé, fragmentaire et puisant à plusieurs sources — à l’instar de l’héritage littéraire québécois. Les nouvelles du recueil n’annoncent pas clairement leur hypotexte, mais proposent plutôt, dans le désir de jouer avec le lecteur, un exergue en début de texte. L’architecture du recueil ne respecte pas l’ordre chronologique des hypotextes et les nouvelles provenant du même texte source ne sont pas regroupées. Aquin demeure compare deux romans québécois contemporains soit Ça va aller de Catherine Mavrikakis et Pourquoi Bologne d’Alain Farah. À partir du constat selon lequel la figure d’Hubert Aquin exercerait une présence spectrale sur la littérature québécoise et aurait légué un héritage problématique et paradoxal à la postérité, le projet a pour but de voir quelles lectures de cet héritage aquinien proposent les œuvres de Mavrikakis et de Farah. L’analyse de Ça va aller débute par une étude comparative des deux figures auctoriales qui y sont présentées soit Hubert Aquin et Robert Laflamme, un avatar de Réjean Ducharme. Alors que Laflamme / Ducharme aurait contaminé toute la littérature avec ses voltiges langagières, Aquin aurait quant à lui abandonné la nation québécoise le jour de son suicide. L’analyse de Pourquoi Bologne, quant à elle s’intéresse à la reprise et au détournement de Prochain épisode. À partir des notions d’intertextualité et d’hypertextualité développées par Genette, l’étude tente de déterminer s’il est possible de penser Pourquoi Bologne comme un texte au second degré.
Boucher, Lauzon Jeanne. "La Lanterne d’Arthur Buies : analyse du discours pamphlétaire et de sa réception dans le milieu journalistique." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13671.
Full textLa Lanterne, written in Montreal by Arthur Buies from 1868 to 1869 and inspired by Rochefort’s La Lanterne, diverges from newspapers published at that time, when the clergy - who controlled most of them - imposes upon Catholics obedience to the authorities. By publishing La Lanterne, Buies opposes French-Canadian newspapers not only through his criticisms towards them, but also through his choice to write it as a pamphlet, a literary genre that confronts the standards from that period by being written in a style close to spoken language and essentially based on denunciation. Although not officially censored, the polemist is under pressure from the clergy and the conservative press, which affects his project of turning his newspaper into an organ for the youth. Reconstructing the history of La Lanterne and analysing the text, in comparison with the 1884 reedition, allow us to identify the expression of Buies’ ambition, in opposition to the more discreet signs of the difficulties he had to face while writing his journal. The polemist portrays himself in interaction with his opponents and his readers. Thus, the study of the response La Lanterne received from other newspapers shows there was little reaction and that those who wrote about it discredit the publication. Buies was in fact struggling with the absence of a true interlocutor. Our analysis of the literary dimension of La Lanterne brings a better comprehension of Buies’ goals and the tools he intended to use to transform the press - and, by that, the Canadian youth. By looking at the response Buies received, we also want to highlight how the French-Canadian journalistic community worked and understand the part Buies played in it.
Beverley, Andrea. "Grounds for telling it : transnational feminism and Canadian women's writing." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4843.
Full textThis dissertation explores connections between contemporary Canadian women’s writing and transnational feminism. The category of the transnational is increasingly important within Canadian literary criticism, but it is infrequently evoked in relation to feminism. Throughout this thesis, I develop a transnational feminist reading methodology that can be brought to bear on Canadian women’s writing, even as the literature itself participates in and nuances transnational feminist mobilizations of concepts such as complicity, collaboration, silence, and difference. Furthermore, my transnational feminist reading strategy provides a method for the rehistoricization of certain texts and moments in Canadian women’s writing that further allows scholars to trace a genealogy of anti-essentialist feminist expression in Canadian literature. To this end, I read texts by Daphne Marlatt, Dionne Brand, and Suzette Mayr, alongside Tessera, a collectively-edited journal, and conference proceedings from the 1988 Telling It conference; these texts speak to national and colonial critique, post-colonial and diasporic identities, and the potentials of feminist collaboration across various borders. In the first chapter, I situate my reading methodology by arguing for a transnational feminist understanding of Tessera, a bilingual feminist journal that began publishing in 1984. My second chapter examines the collectively-edited publication that emerged from Telling It in the context of North American feminist evocations of difference in recent decades. Notably, my research on Telling It benefits from rarely-accessed archival material that grounds my discussion of the gaps and silences of collective work. In my third chapter, I perform a close reading of Daphne Marlatt’s 1979 multi-genre text “In the Month of Hungry Ghosts” as it explores the complex connections between colonialism, post-colonialism, complicity and globalization. The subject of my fourth chapter is the 1994 film Listening for Something…, a transnational feminist collaboration between Dionne Brand and Adrienne Rich. Finally, my fifth chapter discusses the place of the transnational in relation to the regional, the national – and the monstrous in the context of Suzette Mayr’s Venous Hum. In all of these close textual readings, my dissertation asks how Canadian women writers represent, theorize, and critique the kinds of collaboration across differences that lie at the heart of transnational feminist action. My research is therefore located at the crossroads of Canadian literature, contemporary feminist theory, and postcolonial and globalization studies. The vibrant field of transnational feminist theory is relevant to this disciplinary intersection and, furthermore, contemporary Canadian women’s writing provides important interventions from which to imagine transnational feminist collaboration.
Champagne, Sonia. "Double échappée ; suivi de Se dire, se comprendre : l'homosexualité adolescente dans les romans québécois pour la jeunesse." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8963.
Full textA delicate matter, homosexuality as a theme is seldom exploited in the arts. In Quebec’s literature for young people, we can only find a few main homosexual characters constituting positive representations for teenagers. Double échappée, the first part of this master thesis in research-creation, contributes to this field by directing the spotlight towards two teenagers who live their homosexuality in parallel. One has to learn to cope with this reality, a reality that is still new to him. At the same time, the other one, out of the closet and seamlessly at ease with his homosexuality, is forced to reaffirm his identity when he arrives in a new environment. Their paths are intertwined, their relationship grows and the reader is shown their awakenings, different but also tightly connected one to another. The second part of this master thesis, entitled Se dire, se comprendre : l’homosexualité dans les romans québécois pour la jeunesse, is somewhat Double échappée’s contextual frame. With the sociological implications of the topic in mind, this essay studies the various treatments of identity issues brought up by homosexuality in a few novels published in Quebec. It analyzes the way six recent works destined for young adults hold the topic of homosexuality, especially in regard to identity awareness and its expression. This study concentrates on the way those books propose the uncovering of homosexuality by teenagers by focussing on the homosexual characters’ representations and their progression. It is important to see how the stories give a voice to the lesbian and gay protagonists.
Chantraine, Dominique. "Archipel suivi de L'étrangère en son royaume : la psyché du lieu chez Marguerite Duras." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9187.
Full textThrough short accounts, the narrator reconstitutes the past of a family. The main character, a young girl, is the narrator attempting to trace the events which led to the break-up of her family cell. Seeking to distance herself from this past, she delivers the auto-biographical story using the third person. The little girl has grown up, and the narrator she has become attempts to reclaim her heritage: the possibility of writing this story. In Marguerite Duras’ work, the presence of surroundings is often solicited to participate in narrating the events. In La pute de la côte normande and Écrire, two auto-biographical works written in the first person, the places evoked are those sheltering her everyday life. Those are revealing of the author’s psychology and intertwine with the concern of writing. Marguerite Duras, her surroundings and her writing style become bound to one another by the author’s language, which reveals the void caused by her father’s death.
Payette, Édith. "Enfouies suivi de Poétique de la spectralité dans Beautiful Losers de Leonard Cohen." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22005.
Full textHarvey, Simon. "2012, suivi de l’imaginaire du survivant dans l’œuvre de Christian Guay-Poliquin." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23734.
Full text2012 is a novel narrated by a survivor in a post-apocalyptic universe of zombies in Montreal. Books, movies and tv series will help him to stay alive. The text demonstrates that the knowledge acquired through different cultural objects allows survival. Intertextuality and intermediality become central tools in the survivor's imaginary. The essay in this thesis focuses on Christian Guay-Poliquin's Le fil des kilomètres (2013) and Le poids de la neige (2016), two texts which present the idea that cultural knowledge allows the narrator’s survival. Renée Bourassa's reflections on hypermedia fictions will demonstrate that the different cultural productions present in the imaginary of the surviving narrator form a knowledge network. This network enables the narrator to make decisions by interacting with the knowledge acquired in cultural items. This remembrance acts like a Wikipedia guide and a hypertextual labyrinth.
Laforest, Hélène B. "Bois dormant suivi de La réécriture féministe contemporaine de quatre contes dans Putain de Nelly Arcan et Peau d'âne de Christine Angot." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11038.
Full textThe tale entitled Bois dormant features a carpenter/cabinetmaker who spends all his free time building furniture in a cycle of useless production. This meaningless waste of wood causes nature to rise up against him, spreading an energy that brings life to all the objects in his house. This story revisits several fairytales (Blue Beard, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Otesánek, Sleeping Beauty, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Cinderella) and turns them into nightmares, grinding down their morals, heightening their cruelty and using their patterns to illustrate the absurdity of the modern world. This Frankenstein narrative, with its baroque-like aesthetics and abounding parentheses, uses overstatement as a reflection of over-consumerism. The essay entitled La réécriture féministe contemporaine de quatre contes dans Putain de Nelly Arcan et Peau d’âne de Christine Angot explores how, through the rewritings they inspire, Perrault’s and Grimm’s fairytales form a powerful medium for incarnation that gives rise to the writing of trauma for Christine Angot and Nelly Arcan, but also serves as a tool for their feminist criticism. In Putain, by Nelly Arcan, the narrator reinterprets the stories of The Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White to bring to light different aspects of her struggle against the male gaze oppression. As for Christine Angot, by rewriting Peau d’âne in parallel with Sleeping Beauty, she intends to reveal the adverse effects of fashion’s dictatorship and of the father’s law on the feminine identity. All these new versions help overthrow the logic put forward by these fairytales, exposing their absurdity and twisted nature from a feminist point of view.
Côté, Myriam. "Les personnages comme maîtres d'œuvre du récit de l'actualité dans le journal Le Fantasque de Napoléon Aubin (1837-1845)." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11724.
Full textMany political upheavals occurred in the early nineteenth century, including the rebellions of the Patriots and the Act of Union that followed, involving a strong presence of censorship in the Canadian press of this time period. In order to avoid the censorship, several political journals shifted from the factual to the fictional. The most notable example of this choice of literariness is the newspaper Le Fantasque, edited by Napoleon Aubin and published from 1837 to 1845 in Quebec City. In this journal, the news is reported through different characters and stories. The flâneur is the central character of Le Fantasque. By the story of his walks and meetings and by inserting fictional letters, the flâneur provides access to a multitude of disparate voices, which are acting like spokespersons of the news. The use of characters makes the newspaper a literary text, and the news a story. In this thesis, we study the system of the characters which is developed in Le Fantasque from 1837 to 1842 and the effect of its use on the news and on the act of reading. Our analysis was primarily based on the analysis of texts. It aims to add to the understanding of the early Canadian literature, to show its vitality and openness to the world. We also want to provide tools for the analysis of journalistic form and recognition of literary qualities of several texts published in Le Fantasque.
Payette, Isabelle. "Étude des tensions au sein de la cellule familiale dans l’œuvre de Ying Chen." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11137.
Full textIf the first novels of Chinese born Canadian author Ying Chen could easily be linked to migrant literature, her latest books do not fit so neatly into this corpus. However, critics generally still approach her work from that same perspective. This study aims to analyse Chen’s novels that depict the ‘‘same’’ anonymous narrator from a more appropriate viewpoint: the perspective of the family unit. The feminist works regarding women role within patriarchy and the critical studies on the narratives of filiation shape our own analysis of the tensions within the family in Chen’s novels. The corpus of study consists of Immobile, which rejects parentage in favour of imaginary ancestors, Le Mangeur, focusing on an overbearing fatherhood and Un enfant à ma porte, that recounts a failed experience of maternity.
Brodeur, Andréanne. "Le dialogue entre l'essai et le roman dans Le siècle de Jeanne." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18706.
Full textThis thesis is about generic hybridity and its effect in Yvon Rivard’s Le Siècle de Jeanne. The thesis mainly covers this novel, but also the two books of essays from the same author published in the same period, namely Personne n’est une île and Une idée simple. Considering that literary and metaphysics reflections are a great part of Rivard’s fiction work, we hypothesize that the essay genre plays an important role in Le Siècle de Jeanne. In the first chapter, based on the work of fiction and essay theorists, we question the generic hybridity of the novel. The study translates into a thorough analysis of Le Siècle de Jeanne considering fiction and essay characteristics. In the second chapter, our first conclusions enable us to study the relation between both literary genres within the novel and to demonstrate that the essay takes place as reflective digressions in the narrative universe. The purpose of this thesis being to develop a better understanding of the effect of generic hybridity, we analyze the coexistence of both genres. The interaction between essayistic parts and the main tendencies of the novel, namely intimism and autofiction, are at the heart of our reflection. Finally, we expand our study by analyzing the two books of essays mentioned above with the reflective parts of Le Siècle de Jeanne. We are primarily interested in themes and their intertextual relationships.
Proulx, Stéphanie. "Les représentations de la mémoire de la Shoah dans Le ciel de Bay City de Catherine Mavrikakis, Jonas de mémoire d’Anne Élaine Cliche et le cycle Soifs de Marie-Claire Blais." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22006.
Full textLedoux, Julie. "L’« âme escogriffe » des Colocs : ironie et critique sociale dans la chanson québécoise engagée." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4639.
Full textSince the early studies on songwriting, several researchers have determined that the golden age of Quebec songwriting included productions of the sixties and seventies. It’s in affiliation with the collective spirit of those years that the new protest song of the millennium settled. Indeed, after the hollow musical eighties in Quebec, a band took the lead of the protest song in the early nineties. By defending the marginalized people of society and making themselves their spokesmen, Les Colocs have contributed to the "empowerment" of the unemployed, the homeless, AIDS victims, the depressive and other left out of society. Addressing socio-political issues, the group let us see them from another angle and create a new perspective for the victims. Through the use of ironic processes, Les Colocs managed to install a distance between problems and their victims. Mostly self-ironic, their songs also reveal an irony of situation, also called irony of fate. In parallel to Les Colocs, other artists of the nineties and the early years of the new millenium offer songs with an incurred ironic character, and allow a meaningful comparison. In order to defuse potentially catastrophic situations and develop a form of social critique, Les Colocs have created a production where songwriter’s irony prevailed.
Cosimano, Amélia. "L'homme qui buvait dans le noir ; suivi de, Le sentiment du réel chez Danielle Roger." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20115.
Full textRoy, Nancy. "Le testament de Cassandre ; suivi de L’épreuve initiatrice, esthétique du sublime dans À travers un verger de Philippe Jaccottet et Les Amandiers de Thierry Hentsch." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25453.
Full textMy goal in the following work, as much in the research component as the creative component, is to think the « experience » of the sublime. I say « experience » because the sublime is neither form nor content. It is the subjective act of grasping and surpassing our own limits as they manifest in the mind and body, specifically with regards to the faculty of understanding. Confronted with the frontiers of our imagination, we come to know our metaphysical calling and we seek to transcend it. This experience is paradoxical in the sense that it renders us vulnerable, while also strengthening and reinforcing us. In my short story Le testament de Cassandre, I explore the challenge of coming to grips with the sublime. As the titular character traverses great suffering – the sublime’s tragic gift – she must choose between freedom from death or a lifetime with those she loves. Faced with this cruel choice, Cassandre prefers the cold embrace of nothingness to an eternity alone. The sublime has no single domain, although there are spaces where it is more likely to emerge or to bloom. Writing in fragments (fragmentary writing) – a style that is at once organic and diffuse – is one of those spaces. Like the sublime, writing in fragments resists form while transmitting force and power. Hence the pertinence of studying this style and the sublime together in works where they are both present. It is from this perspective that my essay The Initiating Test: The Aesthetic of the Sublime in À travers un verger by Philippe Jaccottet and Les Amandiers by Thierry Hentsch, examines the fragmentary accounts of Jaccottet and Hentsch who, in the face of the unthinkable, admit to their own lassitude while simultaneously blaming their circumstances, only to gather themselves anew to be exposed once again.
Roy-Proulx, Ariane. "Le personnage « en devenir » ; dialogue avec le récepteur dans la dramaturgie d'Étienne Lepage." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23743.
Full textThis master’s thesis addresses the notion of character in three works by Quebec playwright Étienne Lepage. First, it aims to identify how this form of the theater character differs from the existing theories on the subject, in particular, Jean-Pierre Sarrazac’s "impersonnage" theory. The aim is to identify the characteristics specific to this "evolving" character, driven by the movement that negotiates its construction in a dialogue with the receiver. This study, which focuses on the analysis of the theater text, draws its foundations from the observations of the theater theorists (Szondi, Lehmann, Abirached, Sarrazac) on this crisis experienced by the character. The second part focuses on the role of the receiver in the dramatic text. The integrations of the receiver give him an active role; he becomes co-creator. The analysis of Lepage’s treatment of immediate time and open space shows how these elements contribute to the arrangement of this space for the receiver. Finally, the monologue as the only possible mode of expression occupies a significant part of this reflection on the character of Étienne Lepage’s dramaturgy. At the confluence of character studies, reception theories and identity construction, this study seeks to identify the character "in the making".
Lajeunesse, Marc-André. "La parole pamphlétaire chez deux «partipristes» : Paul Chamberland et Pierre Vallières." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11630.
Full textThe texts of the young intellectuals that appeared in Parti pris, written about the antagonistic and contentious theatre of violence and strife between classes and values in the social field, represent a singular case of Quebec’s pamphleteering circumscribed in the context of the 1960’s. This study wishes to question the critical faculties of the pamphleteers' texts in Quebec by uncovering the discursive and rhetorical strategies. The revolutionary political purpose put forward by the revue is certainly one of most successful in terms of consolidating its members around the Quebec identity (political, economic, literary, artistic and cultural). Amongst them, Paul Chamberland, whose texts ranged from editorials to poetry, and Pierre Vallières with his autobiographical essay Nègres blancs d’Amérique, are perhaps the most representative of their time and of the issues around which revolved the generation that Parti pris was representing. Drawing on theories of controversy, rhetoric and pragmatic speeches, our research aims to inform the reader of the articulation of Chamberland and Vallières’s thought, as well as the literary value of their work and their stylistic peculiarities. In addition to identifying an overview of the main issues addressed by the Parti pris’s leaders, this research questions the intentions that lie behind the discourse circulating in the revue and in the generation that was claiming it.
Lévesque, Marc-André. "Toutou Tango (cahier d'activité) suivi de Le jeu de la construction du sens dans Téléthons de la Grande Surface." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19542.
Full textVallières, François. "Autopsie d'une oeuvre exquise : palimpsestes et réécritures chez Claude Mathieu." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5356.
Full textClaude Mathieu’s literary production, spanning from 1957 to 1965, differs quite a lot from the work of his contemporaries. Most often, they defend a modern nationalism and bring to the forefront Quebec’s society and territory. For his part, Mathieu discusses more general topics, such as time, art or erotism, inspired by French and foreign literature. This is rather original among Quebec writers of the 1960s. With this intertextual analysis, we seek to show the singularity of Claude Mathieu’s writing. We outline its main literary sources and influences in order to understand how he is inspired and how they guide his poetics. The analysis consists of two chapters. The first is devoted to the collection Vingt petits écrits ou le mirliton rococo. The texts studied are grouped into three sections, depending on the time of the references that support them, either Hellenic, classical or modern literature. The second chapter deals with La mort exquise, the most important work of Claude Mathieu. By analyzing the main pieces of this collection, we show how the influence of André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Jorge Luis Borges became larger than all the various references convened in the first collection of Mathieu’s short stories. We also show how these influences are absorbed and transformed to create an original writing.
Lapierre, Maude. "The Hybridity of Violence : Location, Dislocation, and Relocation in Contemporary Canadian Multicultural and Indigenous Writing." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9865.
Full textThis dissertation explores the relationship between indigenous and multicultural writing in Canada. While critics have paid increasing attention to minoritized literatures, indigenous and multicultural literary strategies are seldom examined together without the mediating presence of settler or dominant Canadian literatures. In order to perform such an analysis, this dissertation deploys the concept of hybridity as a category of literary analysis that comes from a history of colonial violence, but which adequately describes the forms of stylistic experimentation which indigenous and multicultural writers use to dramatize and subvert their marginalization. In order to avoid fetishizing indigenous and multicultural texts as markers of reified “otherness,” I examine them in relation to specific discourses and debates in Canadian literary studies, such as the Canadian long poem, prairie writing, city writing, multiculturalism, and indigeneity. Methodologically, my dissertation examines how each text under discussion contributes, yet radically reconfigures and particularizes, each of these literary categories. In addition, I develop a conceptual framework through which the relationship between multicultural and indigenous texts can be approached without rehearsing the conflations that have marked Canadian literary criticism. To this end, I provide close-readings of texts by Armand Garnet Ruffo, Suzette Mayr, Rawi Hage, and Jeannette Armstrong. My introductory chapter details the manner in which the relationship between indigenous and multicultural writing has been approached in Canadian literary studies so far, and elaborates my conceptual framework through critical re-interpretations of postcolonial, globalization, and hybridity theory as they relate to the field of Canadian literary studies. In my second chapter, I analyze Armand Garnet Ruffo’s long poem Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney. I focus on the generic and stylistic strategies Ruffo develops in order to indigenize the genre of the Canadian long poem and question Grey Owl’s identity. My third chapter examines Suzette Mayr’s Venous Hum as a text which challenges prairie writing, Canadian multiculturalism, and Albertan conservatism through stylistic experimentation, metaphor usage, and use of magic realism. In my fourth chapter, I interpret Hage’s Montreal novel Cockroach as a text whose local, national, and global scales intersect with colonialism and contest national narratives as the novel ultimately replicates Western humanitarian intervention. My final chapter explores Jeannette Armstrong’s Whispering in Shadows in order to illustrate the conceptual limits of this dissertation. Since hybridity always assumes (partial) assimilation, its application in the context of Armstrong’s work would bear coercive results. For that reason, this chapter draws on Armstrong’s definition of indigenous concepts in order to develop a non-hegemonic method of analysis. My dissertation then examines the manner in which each text mobilizes hybridity in order to challenge and supplement the critical discourses that seek to contain them. It contributes to postcolonial Canadian literary studies by opening up the field to the complexities which competing definitions of the global generate, and by examining what literary strategies indigenous and multicultural texts share, yet deploy to different ends.
Filion, Louise-Hélène. "Rencontres et figurations allemandes chez Diane-Monique Daviau, Yvon Rivard et Pierre Turgeon." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4571.
Full textWithin the scope of recent work on cultural transfer, Robert Dion devoted a book (L’Allemagne de Liberté: sur la germanophilie des intellectuels québécois, 2007) observing that several contributors of Quebec journal Liberté expressed a perception of Germany mostly tinged with the concept of fascination. In the wake of this study which focuses on articles and essays published in Liberté and concerning Germany, the present thesis provides an in depth analysis of short stories and novels, written by three collaborators from the journal: Diane-Monique Daviau, Yvon Rivard and Pierre Turgeon. Featuring rather extensive references to Germany, their texts offer a perception of the “Other” which can, from the point of view of intercultural studies, be considered in the perspective of an “encounter” between cultures. It is therefore the relationship with the German language, geographical territory, history and literature which we endeavour to characterize, seeking not only to appreciate and describe the nature of the relationship to “otherness”, but also to briefly discuss the formal consequences of a literary staging of the “Other” – polyphonic practices, types of intertextual processes, etc. This thesis presents innovative thinking on the themes of exile, decentring and migration in contemporary Quebec literature. It links the German framework to the self-investigation performed by the Daviau, Rivard and Turgeon protagonists, revealing that in their personal search, these characters acknowledge their own precariousness, and, in certain cases, a “legacy of poverty” (Yvon Rivard) – two omnipresent themes in Quebec literature.
Rezig, Sofia. "Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud et L’Étranger de Camus : réappropriation et détournements dans le récit littéraire contemporain." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24211.
Full textAbstract A true story of parentage, Meursault, a counter-investigation is by Kamel Daoud, an Algerian columnist and writer of French expression. He prolongs and transgresses the fictional universe of Camus’s The Stranger from the point of view of the Arab. Published by Barzakh editions in Algeria, the novel receives the Goncourt Prize for the first novel in 2015. In Camus’s novel, Meursault shoots an Arab on a beach in Alger. The victim has no identity and remains anonymous; Camus’s text does not attribute any agency to it. Daoud’s novel is born from what is interpreted as an injustice by Haroun, brother of the murdered Arab and narrator of the story which will, from then on, avow a duty of commemoration and rehabilitation while being part of a reflection of contemporary Algeria. In this thesis, we examine in the first chapter the different theoretical processes, namely intertextuality, transtextuality and transfictionality which allow us to understand how Kamel Daoud stages the path that Haroun follows, on the model of the palimpsest, to say the History/the history of his family, his moods and to expose the problem of Algerian identity and its tumultuous relationship with the colonial past. In the second chapter, we see by what means Daoud extends Camus’s novel through the invention of a character and the restructuring of places and events. Finally, the last chapter looks at the ideological and political significance of Daoud’s work and what it implies as postcolonial reading and rewriting of the camusian work.
LaRoche, Rachel. "«En finir avec la géographie» : détournements ludiques de l’écriture du voyage dans Six degrés de liberté de Nicolas Dickner et Document 1 de François Blais." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25066.
Full textInfluenced by travel and exploration stories, as well as the American and Quebec road narratives, the contemporary novels Six Degrees of Freedom by Nicolas Dickner and Document 1 by François Blais subvert travel writing by challenging its conventions and assumptions, while interrogating a stable understanding of space. These two novels feature unusual journeys: whether on board a refrigerated container or through the web, crossing vast territories or confined, Blais and Dickner’s protagonists transform the cartographic purpose of travel. As they rewrite codified travel narratives and take over a number of topoï and clichés, these two texts deploy singular cartographies, which mix invention and reality, geographical spaces and imaginary places. This thesis therefore intends to focus on the representation of space and travel in these two novels, with a particular attention to the way novelists play with their reader, for it is through a ludic irony that Document 1 and Six degrees of freedom observe and record today’s reality.
Piché-Vernet, Renaud. "Les récits d’histoire littéraire québécoise des cégépiens : des récits sans intrigue." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4926.
Full textWhat history of Québec’s literature students hold on to at the end of their collegial studies? That’s the question that we asked ourselves. With the help of a questionnaire, we questioned 300 students that were at the end of their collegial studies. The responses to this questionnaire allow us to trace a draft of that story. Our first observation is that we are in the presence of a multitude of stories. Indeed, no story is similar to the other ones and a big dispersion exist in the results. Therefore, we realize that the stories are not “mis en intrigue”. The students use many elements to tell the story of Québec’s literature. The most important are : the Nouvelle-France, the oral literature, the 19e century, the “terroir”, the “anti-terroir”, the “roman de la ville”, the 1960’s, the migrant literature et the postmodernity. But nothing articulates these elements. They’re all self-sufficient; we have the impression to be in front of a wall of bricks without mortar. The absence of certain elements tend to explain the form of the story : the student tell a story that only use the “courant”, there is an absence of historic or literary events and they don’t make links with other literatures. In brief, all the elements that we could use to articulate a story are gone. In that case, it’s hard to considerate the story done by the students like a real history of Québec’s literature. Keywords :
Marchand, Déric. "Moïse Moïse ; suivi de Au nom de nous qui ne sommes pas." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22002.
Full textPalumbo, Filippo. "Hubert Aquin et la Gnose." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4817.
Full textTo reestablish contact with the realities of the soul, to reopen the source from which Being eternally resurges: such is the occult and unspeakable ideal from which Hubert Aquin’s poetics proceeds. From his youth onwards, Aquin secretly seeks to unravel the mesh of consciousness, in order to retrace the path leading back towards the dark nether regions of the Self, towards the Pleroma of the naked life. Thus he operates exclusively in the service of the impersonal intentionality inscribed in the depths of his psyche, as the instrument of the blind will that acts inside of him “like an inertial force”. His work does not fulfill itself in the text, but rather runs counter to the text, even counter to language itself; it deploys as an exhilarating confrontation with the Negative, with the sacred Word issuing from the abyss. In other words, Aquin’s work takes the form of a Gnosis: an exercise in de-subjectivization and self-destruction that consists in attaining participative knowledge of the imaginal seal imprinted behind the bars of finitude. This thesis, principally devoted to an analysis of the gnostic dimension of Hubert Aquin’s œuvre, aims to show that to decipher the mysterious hieroglyph engraved in the depths of the soul is no simple task: it is rather an opus contra naturam, involving great dangers (of which the first is the risk of psychic inflation); yet, to the author’s eyes, only this task is really necessary and truly worthy of being undertaken, for only by this means can the human being escape from engulfment in death – by being reborn. As Aquin writes in an early work, to open oneself unconditionally to the Negative (i.e., self-destruction) is “a special way of experiencing life and a prerequisite to any artistic enterprise”; it is equivalent to “a superior mode of knowledge” of an “impersonal” kind, promising immediate salvation.