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Alexina Louie (1949-) is one of Canada's foremost composers of contemporary classical music. She was named "Composer of the Year 1986" by the Canada Music Council in the International Year of Canadian music. Her compositions have been commissioned and performed by Canada's major orchestras, ensembles, and soloists and have been played extensively throughout Canada and abroad. Due to the incessant demand for her music, Louie is among the numbered few in Canada who are able to make a living solely by composing. The first chapter of this study outlines Louie's life from childhood until 1993. The second looks at the media's portrayal of Louie, from 1980 until 1992. The ways in which Louie composes are discussed in the third chapter, and the fourth analyses three contrasting pieces: (1) Music for a Thousand Autumns (1983), (2) The Eternal Earth (1986), and (3) The Ringing Earth (1985). A list of works, recordings, and published compositions follow an extensive bibliography. A cassette containing excerpts of Louie's work accompanies the thesis. This study reveals Louie to be an outstanding Canadian musician. She is greatly respected and admired for her compositions as well as for her promotion of contemporary music. Through her expertise, her art, her culture, and her philosophy, Louie has helped put a new face on Canadian contemporary music.

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Ne a Paris en 1904, Jean Darbelnet fait d'abord ses etudes au lycee Carnot, puis a la Sorbonne, en vue d'une formation d'angliciste. Il est recu au concours de l'agregation de l'Universite de France en 1929. Entre 1925 et 1930, il enseigne aux universites du pays de Galles, d'Edimbourg et de Manchester. Il obtient un poste de professeur d'anglais au lycee de Brest en 1931, puis au lycee du Havre et au lycee Condorcet a Paris. Cette formation d'angliciste et ces annees d'enseignement en Grande-Bretagne vont jouer un role determinant dans l'orientation des interets du futur linguiste. Ses etudes "classiques" l'avaient deja rompu a la pratique des exercices de traduction scolaire, au theme et a la version. Sa carriere universitaire en Amerique du Nord debute a Harvarad ou il est charge de cours en 1938-39. Il donne des cours d'ete au Middlebury College. Nomme professeur de langue et litterature francaises a l'universite McGill juste avant la guerre, il est retenu en France au debut des hostilites et ne peut prendre son poste comme directeur du department d'etudes francaises qu'en septembre 1940. Il reprend le chemin des Etats-Unis en 1946, comme professeur de langue et litterature francaises a Bowdoin College ou il restera jusqu'en 1962. Mais, tout en enseignant aux Etats-Unis, il manifeste un interet accru pour les problemes langagiers des francophones vivant au contact de l'anglais dans un Canada bilingue. Pendant ses annees d'enseignement a l'universite Laval, jusqu'en 1975, et meme apres avoir pris sa retraite, il est invite dans plusieurs universites canadiennes, notamment aux universite d'Alberta, de Montreal et d'Ottawa, comme specialiste en linguistique differentielle et en traduction. Enfin, entre ces multiples activites d'enseignement et de recherche, Jean Darbelnet a trouve le temps de jouer un role actif au sein de nombreux organismes et societes savantes canadiens et internationaux. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Throughout history, Flavius Josephus has been the victim of character assassinations carried out by Jews, Christians and modern scholars alike. This thesis uses the methodology of social scientific analysis to compile a model of patron-client relations from the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political science, and ancient history. This eclectic model is then applied to Josephus' autobiography, the Vita, in an effort to arrive at a culturally sensitive understanding of the social personality of Josephus as a patron of the Galileans. Patron-client dynamics are uncovered in four groups of relational encounters: (1) Josephus, Poppea Sabina and Aliturus; (2) Josephus and John of Gischala; (3) Josephus and the Galileans; and (4) Josephus and Vespasian, Titus, Domitian and Epaphroditus. The results of this modelling process are contrasted against the results of the dominant historical methodology, with particular attention being given to the conclusions of Shaye J. D. Cohen's Josephus in Galilee and Rome: His Vita and Development as a Historian, (Leiden: Brill, 1979). It is demonstrated that patron-client relations are a significant factor within the Vita and the application of a model of patron-client relations serves to eliminate ethnocentric judgements that have been erroneously applied to both the text and its author.

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Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (1802--61) was one of the most important figures in the restoration of Catholicism in France after the Revolution. His most enduring contribution to French Catholicism was his re-establishment of the Dominican Order. In this dissertation, I attempt to demonstrate that among those who founded and refounded religious communities in France during the nineteenth century, Lacordaire's understanding of religious life was unique; this uniqueness was particularly evident in his understanding of "restoration" of religious life. Lacordaire, like almost all nineteenth century French Catholics, had been deeply influenced by the Romantic Movement. Like the secular and unlike the Catholic Romantics of nineteenth century France, Lacordaire loved liberty and the world that had emerged from the French Revolution. His Romantic perspective had a profound impact on his understanding of what it would mean to "restore" a religious order. In the first chapter of this dissertation, I discuss briefly the situation in which the Catholic Church in France found itself in the early nineteenth century aftermath of the Revolution which had sought to destroy it. The second chapter is devoted to the presentation of the importance of the restoration of religious life in France to the overall restoration of the church in that country. I emphasize the complicated situation that existed for religious communities in the early nineteenth century. In the third chapter, I discuss Lacordaire's pre-Dominican life. The fourth chapter is especially concerned with Lacordaire's restoration of the Dominican Order. The fifth chapter deals with the difficulties between Lacordaire and his most famous recruit, Alexandre Jandel, who was appointed by Pope Pius IX as head of the Dominican Order in 1850. The sixth chapter is devoted to evaluating Lacordaire's understanding of "restoration" of religious life. It emphasizes the affinity between his Romantic perspective and that of the secular Romantics of his day. I conclude by proposing Lacordaire's understanding of "restoration" as a model and guide for our time as the church and religious communities continue to grapple with questions of renewal and relevance. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Hubert Aquin a exercé, à l'intérieur de son activité créatrice, une réflexion sur la condition de l'écrivain et sur l'esthétique de l'oeuvre littéraire, instituant ainsi un métalangage, soit un deuxième niveau narratif qui subsume l'univers fictionnel de ses romans. Les essais d'Hubert Aquin sont aussi le lieu d'une conceptualisation de la littérature, où le métalangage s'actualise au sein même de l'énoncé et en devient l'enjeu. On connaît plusieurs essais d'Aquin, particulièrement ceux publiés dans les revues Liberté ou Parti pris , tels que «La fatigue culturelle du Canada français» ou «Profession : écrivain». Nous nous pencherons sur les écrits de jeunesse (1947-1960), rédigés par Aquin avant sa consécration par le milieu littéraire québécois et le début de sa vie publique. Ces derniers, caractérisés par le dualisme d'un je , déchiré entre «le jouisseur et le saint», de même que par une réflexion sur la notion de totalité, constituent les prémisses de ce que seront plus tard les réflexions d'Aquin sur l'engagement de l'écrivain et sur la disparition élocutoire. Nous verrons en quoi cette conception de la littérature reprend les aspects fondamentaux de l'essai et comment les premiers essais d'Aquin, aux antipodes de la prose dogmatique, s'inscrivent dans leur contexte de production, marqué par la publication de Refus global , qui est considéré comme le point d'ancrage de la modernité québécoise.