The present thesis is a study of one of Motinggo Busye's numerous popular novels, Anna Soen Nio (1984). The key analytical concepts selected here are social discourse, interdiscursivity, and intertextuality. The main argument running throughout the thesis is that Anna Soen Nio is a narrative reworking of contemporaneous debates, pervasive in Indonesian society, on Indonesian identities: Muslimhood, Indonesian-ness (especially Minangkabau-ness), and Chineseness. / The introduction contains an overview of the sociocritical approach as well as a preliminary discussion on Indonesian social discourse. Chapter 1 discusses the contemporary position of the Sino-Indonesians as a minority group with a complex status. / Chapter 2 presents an overview of Motinggo Busye's life and works as well as an analysis of paratextual elements related to Anna Soen Nio. / Chapter 3 is a narratological analysis of M. Busye's novel. / Chapters 4 and 5 are closely related: they both focus on the novel's ideological discourse on Indonesian identities. In chapter 4, this is done at the level of the novel's personal onomastics (characters' names). Chapter 5 uses another sociocritical tool, the sociogram, in order to decipher the "image of the Chinese" in Anna Soen Nio and stress its interdiscursive and intertextual character. / In the conclusion, Lotman's concept of the hero is used to show that the novel's hero is not its eponymous character. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Autobiography. Present in Georges Perec's writings but only in a profoundly revisionary way. In order to get a genuine understanding of his works, we must begin by recognizing the centrality of the Jewish genocide, the Shoah, in the writer's existence as well as in his activity. / Unprovided with a story of his own, the writer surely felt the imbalance between what the autobiographical tradition offered him and his need to fashion the ephemeral recollections of his past. Hence, he had to destabilize the very idea of autobiographical narrative by writing out his story in a singular and distinct manner. / While reversing the traditional pattern of autobiography, Georges Perec tries to find the most appropriate literary form to record the enormity of the human loss caused by the event. Despite the fact that he is neither a victim nor a survivor, the writer has succeeded in replying to the Holocaust threat to impose silence, by writing a text that occupies a legitimate place in this literature.

Men don't cry (creation). In a neighborhood of a large North American city, a loaf of rye bread brings back adolescent memories to a middle-aged man. Bill remembers his College friends, Nick, Jack and Alec. They will all pass through the same Diner, the same evening, 20 years later without recognizing each other. Those of them who will cross paths will die that same night. It's a story about chance. It's a free cinematographic adaptation of four short stories from three different authors: The Rye Bread by Ray Bradbury, Continuite des parcs and N'accusez personne by Julio Cortazar as well as Fat by Raymond Carver. / Illuminations: From Pirandello toward Kaos ( criticism). When the filmmakers the brothers Taviani decide to undertake their adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's four short stories for the screen, they choose Kaos for the title of their film. Through the study of two of the four adapted short stories, this thesis tries to demonstrate that the adaptation of a literary work or a written text to a filmic text necessarily passes through a chaos that separates the two very different languages. The interpretative work consists of passing through this same chaos using different writing and mise en scene techniques. The aim of this short study is to dissect the links that exist between the two very distinct entities, the written text and the filmic text, through a magisterial and concrete example.

Dimitri P. Bertsekas, John N. Tsitsiklis. / Cover title. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-33). / Research supported by the NSF. ECS-8519058 ECS-8552419 Research supported by the ARO. DAAL03-86-K-0171 Research supported by Bellcore, Du Pont and IBM.

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Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

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The European red mite has within the past ten or fifteen years come into prominence as an important pest of deciduous fruit trees in North America. / Master of Science