Des dinosaures sur papier : des notes « sur le terrain » comme on en trouve dans le Badlands de Robert Kroetsch passe en revue cette œuvre postmoderne de 1975 portant sur une expédition paléontologique fictive près de la rivière Red Deer, en Alberta, conformément à la récente tendance à exiger la vérification systématique des données à la base des récits métafictifs historiographiques dans la littérature canadienne-anglaise. Inspirée de l’exploration canonique qu’a effectuée John Livingston-Lowes des plus grands poèmes de Samuel Taylor Coleridge par le biais de la mine d’or du Gutch Memorandum Book dans The Road to Xanadu, cette thèse entreprend un nouveau type de recherche qui se démarque des archives conventionnelles et de la tradition documentaire. S’appuyant sur des documents holographes non publiés provenant de dépôts d’archives situés au Québec, en Ontario et en Alberta et écrits par des collecteurs, des géologues et des paléontologues de la Commission géologique du Canada, ainsi que sur des notes « sur le terrain », des notes de recherche et des journaux personnels écrits par Robert Kroetsch pendant la rédaction de son roman Badlands, cet examen critique révèle les strates sous-jacentes inédites d’une œuvre de fiction particulière. Dans pratiquement toute fouille paléontologique, le retrait de ce qui enveloppe un spécimen révèle souvent des données supplémentaires qui peuvent, si elles sont soigneusement interprétées, offrir des indices essentiels sur les environnements paléontologiques. Ainsi, un squelette de dinosaure est rarement retiré d’une carrière stérile dans son intégralité. Il en va de même pour toute recherche sur un processus littéraire. Aucun texte ne s’autosuffit. Comme Kroetsch s’est efforcé de produire son récit sous forme d’interrogation sur la création et la transmission des données historiques, particulièrement grâce à des notes « sur le terrain », une vaste étude de ce « terrain » comprenant des intertextes de l’Antiquité, des sciences, de l’Histoire, de l’histoire populaire, de récits de voyages et de la littérature canadienne et internationale est ici menée. On y fait librement référence à des périodes et à des auteurs très diversifiés, allant de Thomas Jefferson et des tombelles à Bruce Chatwin et sa peau de « brontosaure ». Évidemment, aucune entreprise interdisciplinaire du genre ne peut être exhaustive. Ce projet se veut plutôt une vitrine littéraire réunissant des curiosités autour d’une œuvre principale, soit le Badlands de Robert Kroetsch. Réduites à leur plus simple expression, les notes « sur le terrain » constituent des messages destinés à la postérité. En explorant trois thèmes principaux, cette thèse explique comment ces messages pourraient être transmis. « Saxa Loquuntur ! », ainsi intitulé en référence à l’analogie de Freud avec l’archéologie, traite des métaphores associées aux témoignages de la pierre ; « Good Jones » porte sur les façons dont la taxinomie peut combler le désir d’un chercheur d’os de ne pas tomber dans l’oubli ; « Box 16 » suit une piste documentaire en parcourant les écrits de Kroetsch pour reconstituer tant l’élaboration d’un roman que les notions de temps, d’espace et d’origine d’une œuvre littéraire. / Paper Dinosaurs: Field Notes as Finds in Robert Kroetsch's Badlands revisits the 1975 postmodern novel about a fictionalized palaeontological expedition down Alberta's Red Deer River in light of recent calls for systematic investigation into the source materials of historiographic meta-fictions in anglophone Canadian literature. Inspired by John Livingston-Lowes' canonical dissection of the major poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, via the treasure trove of the Gutch Memorandum Book in The Road to Xanadu, this study undertakes a new process focused inquiry into the archive and into the documentary tradition. By excavating unpublished holograph materials from Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta repositories written by Geological Survey of Canada collectors, geologists, and palaeontologists, in addition to field-notes, research notes and diaries produced by Robert Kroetsch during the writing of Badlands, this critical examination reveals hitherto unseen strata underlying a particular work of fiction. In most any palaeontological dig the removal of overburden from a target specimen often exposes surprising ancillary data, which through careful interpretation may give vital clues to palaeo-enviromments. A dinosaur skeleton is rarely pried whole from a sterile quarry. Neither is any inquiry into literary process. No text exists unto itself. Because Kroetsch so self-consciously crafted his narrative as an interrogation of history generation and transmission – specifically via the written word in the vehicle of field-notes – this study surveys a broad field encompassing inter-texts from antiquity, science, history, popular history, travel writing, Canadian and World literatures. Recourse is freely made to widely divergent authors and periods from Thomas Jefferson and the barrow mounds to Bruce Chatwin and his "brontosaurus" skin. Of course no such inter-disciplinary enterprise can be exhaustive. Rather this project assembles a kind of literary cabinet of curiosities grouped around the principal specimen of Robert Kroetsch's Badlands. In their most reductive configuration, field notes are messages to posterity. Through three main themes this study explores how these messages may be conveyed: "Saxa Loquuntur!", so titled after Freud's archaeological analogy, investigates metaphors of stone speaking; "Good Jones" interrogates how taxonomy can be made to serve a bone collector's desire to be remembered; and finally "Box 16" follows a documentary trail into Kroetsch's papers to trace not only the construction of a novel but also notions of time and place, and authorship.

Cette thèse prend son point de départ d'une théorie élaborée par Linda Hutcheon. Elle propose que la métafiction est souvent exploitée à travers quatre genres. L’un deux est l'érotisme. Ainsi, à partir de cette idée, cet ouvrage va examiner plus profondément les liens et les implications entre ce concept de la métafiction, qui sera revu et résumé, et l'érotisme. Les trois romans choisis, A Sport and a Pastime de James Salter, Teorema de Pier Paolo Pasolini et Trou de mémoire de Hubert Aquin, serviront de lieux d'analyse afin de révéler le rapport étroit qu'entretiennent la métafiction et l'érotisme. / This thesis takes as its point of departure a theory elaborated by Linda Hutcheon. She proposes that metafiction is often made use of across four genres. One of these is eroticism. Thus, starting from this point, this work will examine in greater detail the ties and the implications inherent in this concept of metafiction -- which will be reviewed and summarized -- and eroticism. The three selected novels, A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter, Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Trou de mémoire by Hubert Aquin, will serve as sites of analysis with a view to reveal the intimate connection that is fostered by metafiction and eroticism.

Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste werkmonographische Arbeit zu dem deutschen Gegenwartsautor Alban Nikolai Herbst. Im Zentrum stehen das Hauptwerk des Autors – eine lose Pentalogie von Die Verwirrung des Gemüts (1983) über Wolpertinger oder Das Blau (1993) zur Anderswelt-Trilogie, von der Thetis (1998) und Buenos Aires (2001) einbezogen wurden – sowie das von ihm seit 2004 geführte literarische Weblog Die Dschungel. Zum einen dient die Studie als grundlegende Einführung in die komplexen, schwer zugänglichen Romane und Herbsts Poetik im Allgemeinen, zum anderen stehen bei den Textanalysen Fragen der Identität und der Auffassung von Realität bzw. Wirklichkeit im Fokus.

本論文主要是在探討薩曼、魯西迪在東，西小說中如何運用以第三空間為策略在二元對立的世界中找到出口。由於魯西迪漂泊離散的身分，他選擇將自己置於曖昧矛盾的第三空間中以避免被挾制於特定論述或意識形態中。因此魯西迪藉由能夠模糊政治、語言、以及文學方面界線的第三空間為策略，來顯示他如何以曖昧矛盾的處世態度在二元對立的世界中取得自身的主導權。 本論文將會分為三個部分(包括漂泊離散空間、語言第三空間、文學第三空間)來探討魯西迪如何在此小說中使用三種不同的第三空間，以達到抵抗文化身分、標準英語、以及文學經典等霸權。首先，論文第二章最主要在介紹漂泊離散的空間；在此空間中，漂泊離散者能夠依舊保有他們曖昧矛盾的獨立身分並免於被收編或同化於特定的身分中，並且藉此擁有能夠重新定義自己身份的權利與自由。第二，在第三章中魯西迪利用語言中第三空間的觀點來質疑傳統文化翻譯以及標準英語的純正性，為長久以來被曲解、壓抑的東方文化取得發聲的機會；讀者也可藉由文本中語言的挪用來了解認識異文化。最後，於第四章中，我將藉由巴赫汀所闡述存於小說中的新空間和後設小說的戲謔諧擬來分析魯西迪如何創造一個文學第三空間，揭櫫寫作人為的本質；並將社會時事與文學批判結合於小說文類中。總結來說，此三種不同的第三空間不僅反應出魯西迪拒絕選擇而將自身置於矛盾曖昧中的空間中，同時也為二元對立的世界中注入新動力。 / The aim of the thesis is to scrutinize how Salman Rushdie finds an outlet in the dichotomous world by means of the third space in East, West. Due to his diasporic identity, Rushdie decides to stay in an ambivalent space, avoiding being confined in specific ideology or discourse. As a result, using the strategy of the third space, which blurs political, linguistic, and literary boundaries, Rushdie shows how he earns agency in the dichotomous world. This thesis deals with three kinds of third space: diaspora space, linguistic space, and literary space. Each chapter unfolds how Rushdie uses the strategy of the third space to resist hegemonic discourse on human identity, the Standard English, and literary canons. Chapter II begins with an introduction of the diaspora space, by which diasporans are able to maintain their unique identities without being co-opted into a specific subject position. In Chapter III, both traditional cultural translation and the Standard English are questioned in terms of the linguistic third space. By means of the linguistic space, Rushdie challenges the monolithic cultural representation and pureness of the Standard English. The space also helps the distorted and misrecognized eastern culture articulate by appropriation of English. In Chapter IV, I will take metafictional parody and Bakhtin’s new zone of the novel to analyze how Rushdie creates a literary third space to lay bare the fabricated nature of writing and at the same time to combine social and literary critiques within the novel. To sum up, the three types of the third space in East, West not only reflect Rushdie’s refusal to taking sides but also bring dynamics to the dichotomous world.

When I write I, I also write we (say we also write that we’re momentarily in possession of the possibilities, and as for the possibilities: they have us), as in my hyperbolic twin brother and I, and from that point on (as well as before) in company with the gaps between us. The auto-corrections, the imposed circumstances, the complicities, and some conspirationalist copings within a system with no clearly identifiable nemesis. Here, the act of resistance to whatever is playing us, also enacts the playing of that which plays us. The heinous power of family and narrative insists. Two lead narratives are interwoven during the course of time it took for a pizza to be delivered (from pizzeria Marco Polo): Looping on a Panasonic Viera TX-55AX630E, the  search for a/my lost and/or hidden dad arrives through the mispronunciation of the word “that” during a negotiation in a park. Where a tangled hypothesis, along the lines of “what if the plot device of a shot of a moon in a video used to forward time (as in an alternative to ‘later that night’) was a graphic representation of an analog clock recognized in a to-be sliced pizza that is eventually consumed as a means to induce a food coma?” takes place (and time, as saved time is always already lost). It’s almost dark already. Also it's not, and the future held hostage by the river of the forest of the woods is followed by the sense of not being able to tell if there’s an emotion or a feeling present. Visits from passed pasts. It all starts to feel originatory. Thanks to X, this keeps on happening, thoughts and behaviours about suspicious timing and holistic systems keep on happening. This keeps on happening, and it works its way into physical works in an exhibition space with no reference to an infirmary, where parrot tulips are emotional flowers, a print is printed using a temperamental printer, sawdust creates glossy eyes, and all locked doors are eventually keyed out. An investigation into conditions of influence, co-authorship, connectivity, all within a space cohabited by comedy, sentimentality, and other states subject to flatness.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo estudar a construção metaficcional de O triunfo da Morte, romance do escritor português Augusto Abelaira. No primeiro momento da pesquisa é realizado um panorama da obra do romancista, a fim de verificar as diferentes características que o questionamento metalingüístico assume ao longo de sua produção. Nesse percurso pela obra de Abelaira são propostas três fases significativas, cada qual com abordagens metaficcionais próprias. É proposto um viés crítico diferenciado, que afasta Abelaira da linha do nouveau roman francês e problematiza sua postura neo-realista. No segundo momento da pesquisa a análise se centra em O triunfo da Morte, estruturando-se em torno de três aspectos fundamentais: multiplicidade, literatura e leitor. Quanto à multiplicidade da narrativa, verifica-se no romance uma construção sinfônica e contrapontística, que lhe confere o caráter de enciclopédia de procedimentos estilísticos e temáticos. A literatura e seus diferentes papéis são discutidos por meio da aproximação entre narrativa e jogo (tomando o blefe como recurso utilizado pelo narrador) e do confronto entre diversas concepções acerca da criação literária. Um dos temas destacados quanto à função e ao processo de criação da literatura é o conflito entre cálculo e inspiração. A análise do terceiro aspecto apontado, o leitor, dá-se a partir de figuras recorrentes na obra abelairiana: amante, mulher de branco e morte, cada uma indicando um aspecto diferenciado que o interlocutor de Abelaira assume na leitura do romance. A análise da multiplicidade, das concepções de literatura e do papel do leitor em O triunfo da Morte conduz a uma releitura crítica do conjunto da produção de Augusto Abelaira. A partir da presente pesquisa, pode-se concluir que O triunfo da Morte não é apenas uma sinfonia, mas também uma enciclopédia de criação literária (compilação caótica e parodística de temáticas, questionamentos, personagens, pontos de vista, linguagens e estilos) e manifesto do autor. / The object of this paper is to discuss the metafictional construction of O triunfo da Morte ("The triumph of Death"), a novel by Portuguese writer Augusto Abelaira. At first, the research brings a broad view of the author's work, in order to observe the different features shown by metalinguistic questioning throughout his production. On this stroll through Abelaira's work, three significant periods are proposed, each with its own metafictional approach. A new critical standpoint is also proposed, distancing Abelaira from the French nouveau roman line and problematizes his neo-realistic position. In the second part of the research the analysis is centered in O triunfo da Morte, basing on three fundamental aspects: multiplicity, literature and reader. Concerning the multiplicity of the narrative, the novel presents a symphonic and counterpointing construction, which gives it the status of an encyclopedia of stylistic and thematic procedures. Literature and its different roles are discussed through the approximation between narrative and game (using the bluff as a narration resource) and the confrontation of diverse conceptions about literary creation. A highlighted theme on the function and creation process of literature is the conflict between calculation and inspiration. The analysis of the third pointed aspect, the reader, is done through recurring characters in Abelaira's work: lover, woman in white and death, each indicating a different aspect assumed by Abelaira's interlocutor while reading the novel. The analysis of multiplicity, of concepts on literature and of the reader's role in O triunfo da Morte leads to a critical review of Augusto Abelaira's overall work. After the present research, one can conclude that O triunfo da Morte is not only a symphony, but also an encyclopedia of literary creation (a chaotic and parodical compilation of themes, questionings, characters, points of view, languages and styles) and a writer's manifesto.

From Metafiction to Self-reflexive Narration (Theory and Practice of Self-disclosing Fiction in Czech Literature) Mgr. Vladimír Trpka Abstract The doctoral thesis deals with metafiction as a key theoretical concept influencing both theoretical contemplations on self-reflexivity in narrative fiction and interpretation of the development of self-reflexive practice in literature. The main objective, based on an analysis of the most influential theoretical approaches to narrative self-reflexivity, is to propose such concepts of metafiction and self-reflexive narration that could be applied in the analysis of the self-reflexive practice in the Czech narrative fiction. The theoretical part focuses on examining the relationship between metafiction and narrative self- reflexivity. Metafiction is viewed as a concept that has not only replaced the concept of self-conscious novel, but it has also adapted it to the postmodern conception of fiction. The concept of fictionality in the theoretical concept of metafiction is directly related to postmodern discourse in which this concept was born. Consequently, an explicitly formulated and/or hidden relationship with constructivist philosophy of language, performativity, and linguistic nature of reality is found in the existing approaches to metafiction. Thus if the...

Cette thèse a pour ambition d’interroger les positions inévitablement instables que ne cesse de briguer l’écrivain Germano Almeida au sein de la société capverdienne. Partant du principe que l’énonciation littéraire est constitutivement tenue de réfléchir dans l’univers fictionnel qu’elle construit les conditions de sa propre existence, cette étude vise d’abord à montrer comment Germano Almeida met en place des scénographies qui lui permettent de négocier l’inscription de ses œuvres tant dans le champ du pouvoir que dans le champ littéraire du Cap-Vert. Dans la première partie, l’analyse porte sur les rapports spécifiques qu’entretiennent littérature et politique dans un espace d’abord colonial puis post-colonial, l’introduction de l’humour et de l’ironie dans la littérature « savante », la tension entre une oralité revendiquée et une écriture effective qui prend une dimension particulière dans un espace linguistique diglossique et finalement les écarts entre la réception planifiée et la réception effective de son œuvre. La deuxième partie met en évidence la volonté chez Germano Almeida de participer à la configuration de l’espace social capverdien. Si les premières fictions almeidiennes ont systématiquement déconstruit les représentations traditionnellement rurales et intégrées de la société créole, les plus récentes dessinent en définitive les contours d’une société plutôt urbaine qui ne cesse de faire face à la contingence. La troisième partie fait justement ressortir une volonté constante d’inscrire les diverses expériences créoles dans un continuum temporel qui permette non seulement de donner sens au passé mais également d’avoir une meilleure maîtrise de l’avenir et d’échapper ainsi au danger de la répétition carnavalesque de l’histoire. L’étude de ces configurations spatio-temporelles met finalement en évidence le fait que leur énonciateur se conçoit non seulement comme un élément à part entière de la société capverdienne mais également son observateur distancié et donc averti. / This thesis intends to examine the inevitably precarious stances that the writer Germano Almeida constantly seeks out within Cape Verdean society. Starting from the premise that by definition literary expression constitutes a reflection on its own existence within the fictional universe it creates, this study intends, first, to illustrate how Germano Almeida, through his scenography, manages to position his work both within the power structure and on the literary scene of Cape Verde. The first part of the analysis focuses on the special relationship between literature and politics in both colonial and post-colonial society, the inclusion of humor and irony in scholarly literature, the conflict that arises between a well-established oral tradition and actual writing with the latter playing a singular role within a highly differentiated bilingual society. Lastly, the gap between the expected and the real reactions to Almeida’s work is examined. The second part of the analysis illustrates Germano Almeida’s desire to participate actively in shaping Cape Verdean society. If Almeida’s first fictions systematically deconstruct traditional representations of a rural and cohesive Creole society, more recent works definitely depict the traits of a primarily urban society that is forced to constantly deal with contingencies. The third part of this study highlights Almeida’s constant desire to place the diversity of Creole experiences on a time continuum that not only gives meaning to the past but also provides greater command of the future and the possibility to thus avoid the danger of grotesquely repeating history. In the end, the study of these time-space configurations makes it obvious that their author sees himself not only as a full member of Cape Verdean society but also as an objective, and therefore, informed observer.

Text in Afrikaans / Spieel, kamer van spieels, mise-en-abyme, representasie, ensovoorts, is almal begrippe wat met die nosie van selfrefleksiwiteit in verband gebring word. Hoewel selfrefleksiwiteit nie 'n nuwe verskynsel is nie, is die vraag waarom dit juis vandag so akuut in die literer-teoretiese diskoers neerslag vind. Dit geld veral teoretiese bydraes oor die Postmodernisme en/of Postmodemistiese tekste. Hieruit kan 'n mens aflei dat daar 'n direkte verband tussen selfrefleksiwiteit en die Postmodernisme bestaan. Hierdie studie is dan primer gemteresseerd in die wyses waarop die Postmodernistiese dramafteater die nosie van selfrefleksiwiteit in die enkoderingsproses in diens neem. Daarbenewens word ondersoek ingestel na die invloed wat die konsep van vervreemding in die twintigste-eeuse dramajteater op die verskillende beskouings van selfrefleksiwiteit gehad het. Die uiteindelike oogmerk is om aan te toon dat selfrefleksiwiteit in die Postmodernistiese dramafteater gevestigde aannames oor kuns as spieelbeeld van die werklikheid omverwerp. / Mirror, hall of mirrors, mise-en-abyme, representation, et cetera are all concepts associated with the notion of self-reflexivity. While self-reflexivity is not a new phenomenon, the question is why, in our time, it should be so acutely present in the discourse of literary theory - especially in theoretic contributions on Postmodernism and/or Postmodernist texts. One is lead to conclude that self-reflexivity and Postmodernism are directly linked. This study, then, focuses primarily on how Postmodernist drama/theatre employs the notion of self-reflexivity in the encoding process. It also explores the impact of the concept of alienation in twentieth century drama/theatre on the various views of self-reflexivity. The fmal objective is to show that self-reflexivity in Postmodernist drama/theatre challenges ftxed suppositions about art as a reflection of reality. / Afrikaans, Theory of Literature / M.A. (Theory of Literature)

A escritora inglesa Jane Austen possui, além do status de autora canônica, um apelo popular não apenas em função de sua qualidade como escritora, mas também pela força imagética de suas obras quando adaptadas para o cinema. Em Amor e Inocência (2007), o diretor Julian Jarrold apresenta um episódio ocorrido na vida da autora, com base em fatos extraídos da biografia Becoming Jane Austen, escrita em 2003 por Jon Spence. O filme explora um possível envolvimento entre a jovem Jane e o estudante irlandês Tom Lefroy. Essa produção, enquanto apresenta o início da carreira da escritora, sugere que o trauma da relação mal sucedida com Lefroy possa ter sido a fonte temática que inspirou sua obra ficcional posterior. Esta dissertação verifica de que forma o filme articula as questões históricas sobre a vida de Austen com as situações ficcionais apresentadas em seus romances para chegar a um produto final tão coeso e verossímil, embora ficcional. Especial atenção é dada ao estudo da construção da personagem protagonista, que resulta da combinação entre o conteúdo imagético das obras de Austen e os elementos biográficos pesquisados por Spence. Além dessas fusões, há ainda que ser considerado o ícone Jane Austen, que habita o imaginário dos ingleses e dos leitores pelo mundo afora. Na evolução das adaptações fílmicas das obras de Austen testemunhamos a fusão entre as personagens e a própria autora, especialmente no caso de Elizabeth Bennet, em Orgulho e Preconceito (1813). Para realizar esta análise, lanço mão dos conceitos de adaptação e apropriação propostos por Linda Hutcheon, e do conceito de metaficção historiográfica estabelecido pela mesma autora em A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988). Ao término do trabalho, espero que esta discussão investigativa e argumentativa seja útil em três aspectos: contribuindo para o debate sobre autores usados como personagens na ficção derivativa contemporânea; identificando certas necessidades culturais que subjazem ao culto do ícone Jane Austen, conhecido como Austenmania; e verificando até que ponto o conceito de metaficção historiográfica dá conta de propostas narrativas em que a personagem histórica retratada é também uma escritora. / Jane Austen enjoys more than the status of canonical author: she is also popular not only because of her achievements as a writer but also for the cinematic appeal of her novels. In Becoming Jane (2007), director Julian Jarrold presents the story of Jane Austen from an episode occurred early in the author’s life. Based on facts extracted from Jon Spence’s biography Becoming Jane Austen (2003), the film explores a supposed relationship between young Jane and an Irish Law student, Tom Lefroy. In Becoming Jane we witness the beginning of Austen’s writing career, and the film speculates that the trauma of a failed relationship with Lefroy was the inspiration for Austen’s mature novels. This work verifies the ways in which the film articulates the historical aspects of Jane Austen’s life with fictional events as presented in her novels to reach a cohesive and credible – although fictional – result. Special attention is paid to the process of constructing a fictional Jane as main character, combining the images contained in her novels with the biographical elements presented by Spence; it is also considered in this analysis the evolving nature of Jane Austen as an icon that inhabits not only the English imaginary but also that of readers all over the world. In the evolution of Austen filmic adaptations, we witness a fusion between her characters and the author herself, especially Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice (1813), which adds to the intertextual layers of any film analysis. To deal with the questions of film adaptations, I refer to the concepts of adaptation and appropriation as posed by theoretician Linda Hutcheon. For the specific analysis of the phenomenon of author as character, I turn again to Linda Hutcheon and the concept of historiographic metafiction presented in A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988). I hope, by the end of this thesis, that this investigative and argumentative analysis is helpful in three instances: contributing to the discussion of the use of authors as characters in contemporary fiction, be it filmic or literary; identifying the cultural needs of readers and critics that perpetuate the cult of Jane Austen, known as Austenmania; and verifying to what extent historiographic metafiction alone is enough to deal with narratives in which the historical character portrayed is also a writer.