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There are two parts to this thesis; one is a critical study, the other comprises two literary texts. In the first part, I speak of the links between fiction and autobiography. Having defined these two terms, I then look at the ways they are present in several works by Janine Boissard, a French writer. I try to understand the techniques that are needed to write fiction and autobiography. The second part of the thesis contains an autobiographical story and a short story that uses some autobiographical elements. It shows how an event is modified by memory, in the case of the autobiographical text, and by imagination, in the case of the short story. Finally, in a brief essay, I discuss the difficulties I encountered in writing each of these texts.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Panjāba Visvavidyalaya. / In Hindi. Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-368).

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This thesis attempts to demonstrate the importance of the "autobiography of childhood" in Gabrielle Roy's first-person narratives through a narratological analysis of the most representative of these texts--the pseudo-autobiographical Rue Deschambault and La Route d'Altamont as well as the autobiographical texts La Detresse et l'Enchantement, "Ma petite rue qui m'a menee autour du monde", "Mes etudes a Saint-Boniface", "Souvenirs du Manitoba" and "Mon heritage du Manitoba". Our purpose is to identify recurrent structures and to interpret the similarities and differences in the light of contemporary theories on the autobiographical genre. This allows us in turn to examine the functioning and meaning of childhood writing in Gabrielle Roy's first-person narratives.

This thesis contends that there has often been a critical tendency to understate the challenges to the genre of autobiography that occur in Audrey Thomas's three novels: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Mrs. Blood, and Blown Figures. Chapter one qualifies autobiography in terms of its reliance on the liberal humanist subject as both author and protagonist. In the context of poststructuralist criticism, the author cannot be the unified, unique, original locus of truth that the liberal humanist subject is posited to be. Thus, as the subject collapses the foundation of autobiography collapses. Chapter two is a detailed analysis illustrating that the three novels stylistically and thematically deny the existence of the liberal humanist subject. thereby exemplifying the poststructuralist challenge to autobiography. The Canadian canons reliance on mimetic literature---of which pure autobiography would be the prime example---is offered as an explanation for critics' understatement of the texts' denial.

Thesis Ph.D. - University of Glasgow, 2009. / Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Scottish Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2009. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2003. / Thesis directed by Stephen Fredman for the Department of English. "December 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-270).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.