Thèse (Ph.D.)--Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), 2007. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 1 février 2007). In ProQuest dissertations and theses. Publié aussi en version papier.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thèse--Universit́e de Paris. / "Œuvres des auteurs canadiens-fran ̧cais": p. [197]-204; "Bibliographie générale": p. 204-211.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Études Francaises. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-100). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11865

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This thesis is written in three segments: a novel excerpt, an introduction to the genre of English- Canadian love stories; and a critical reflection on the creative process. The introduction to the genre is written in the style of a book introduction and is intended for a general audience. My ecocritical examination of love stories in English-Canadian fiction concludes that these stories tend to be banal subplots that are nonetheless deeply engaged with nature. In this thesis, “love” always refers to the intimate love shared between two lovers or would-be lovers, be they married or unmarried, gay or straight, very young or elderly. Western culture often posits marriage as the pinnacle of accomplished intimate love, though the books researched for this project profoundly object to this viewpoint. Furthermore, the tendency toward scant, emotionally-impotent, and distinctly un-sexy depictions of love doesn’t register indifference; it registers disillusionment. I assert that a meaningful, distinct, and supportive correlation exists between love stories and nature-human stories in these texts. Where more nature is present, more love is present and vice versa. Where nature is less visible, love is less visible and vice versa. I use the term “ecology of love” to address these instrinsic links—the in between—between humans and nature. The first section of the thesis explores this phenomenon through the story and characters of an original novel excerpt. The second section discusses the reasons for banality, which involve social ennui and disillusionment, geographic obstacles, moral propriety, and the unique conditions that arise in a nation of immigrants. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

<p> Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, or as she is most well-known, Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) spent her entire life under the watchful eye of many. Fashioned from birth as an Austrian aristocrat, she was transported to France at age fourteen to meet and marry the future king of France. From the onset of her arrival, French writers made attempts to capture what they observed. However, personal bias, political leanings, and accepted rumor led them to do more than record what they saw. Rather than simply narrate a scene, these early witnesses of Marie-Antoinette became the interpreters of her thoughts, motives and feelings. As these interpretations grew, they became widely accepted as truth and eventually became the agents leading to Marie-Antoinette&rsquo;s demise, as previous biographers and historians of Marie-Antoinette have amply discussed.</p><p> In this dissertation I suggest going beyond an analysis of the literature that led to Marie-Antoinette&rsquo;s death, and examining the numerous times that Marie-Antoinette&rsquo;s story was reinterpreted during the century after her death. I will examine nineteenth-century texts from several different authors and genres, including: the historical biographies of Christophe de Montjoye, Lafont d&rsquo;Aussonne, Alcide de Beauchesne, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, and Horace de Viel-Castel; the eye-witness testimonies of Jean-Baptist Cl&eacute;ry, Henriette Campan, and Rosalie Lamorli&egrave;re; the historical fiction of Elisabeth Gu&eacute;nard Brossin de M&eacute;r&eacute; and Alexandre Dumas; and finally the archival compilations of Emile Campardon and Gaston Lenotre. I will examine each author&rsquo;s choice of genre, as well as how contemporary trends in literature, historical studies and even politics influenced their interpretation of Marie-Antoinette.</p><p>

For over a century there has been a large ongoing migration from Newfoundland to other parts of Canada and the US. Between 1971 and 1998 alone, net out-migration amounted to 20% of the province’s population. This exodus has become a significant part of Newfoundland culture. While many literary critics, writers, and sociologists have referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a “diaspora,” few have examined the theoretical implications of applying this emotionally charged term to a predominantly white, economically motivated, inter-provincial movement. My dissertation addresses these issues, ultimately arguing that “diaspora” is an appropriate and helpful term to describe Newfoundland out-migration and its literature, because it connotes the painful displacement of a group that continues to identify with each other and with the homeland. I argue that considering Newfoundland a “diaspora” also provides a useful contribution to theoretical work on diaspora, because it reveals the ways in which labour movements and intra-national migrations can be meaningfully considered diasporic. It also rejects the Canadian tendency to conflate diaspora with racialized subjectivities, a tendency that problematically posits racialized Others as always from elsewhere, and that threatens to refigure experiences of racism as a problem of integration rather than of systemic, institutionalized racism. I examine several important literary works of the Newfoundland diaspora, including the poetry of E.J. Pratt and Carl Leggo, the drama of David French, the fiction of Donna Morrissey and Wayne Johnston, and the memoirs of Helen M. Buss/ Margaret Clarke and David Macfarlane. These works also become the sites of a broader inquiry into several theoretical flashpoints, including diasporic authenticity, nostalgia, nationalism, race and whiteness, and ethnicity. I show that diasporic Newfoundlanders’ identifications involve a complex, self-reflexive, postmodern negotiation between the sometimes contradictory conditions of white privilege, cultural marginalization, and national and regional appropriations. Through these negotiations they both construct imagined literary communities, and problematize Newfoundland’s place within Canadian culture and a globalized world. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Depuis la deuxième guerre mondiale le roman caradien français témoigne d'un dynamisme étonnant. Dans ce travail nous nous proposons d'examiner certains de ces romans écrits entre les années 1947 et 1957 afin de mettre en relief quelques traits de leur développement. L'intére êt des intellectuels pour l'effet de l’évolution sociale de la Province de Québec sur la mentalité de l'individu se manifeste librement dans le roman. L'auteur n'est nullement retenu par les règies qu'impos ent un document historique. Cette liberté lui permet d'arriver à la même fin que l'historien ou le sociologue, d'une façon plus realiste, done plus attrayante, pour un plus grand nombre de gens. Littérature encore dans son enfance, la littérature canadienne ne justifiera encore aucun jugement définitif d’ensemble. Toutefois il faut signaler un aspect significatif du roman canadien français: l'interréaotion des forces sociales et de la personnalité collective et individuelle. Cette thése ne se borne pas à signaler les simples esquisses de moeurs. Elle a plutôt l'intention de dégager des romans un type d'homme représentatif de cette société en évolution. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate

De tous les genres littéraires le roman était le moins en faveur chez les écrivains du Canada Français au XIXe siècle. Le manque de métier de ces écrivains et leur incapacité à observer et à analyser les caractères expliquent sans doute cette étrange lacune. Les premiers romans contenaient surtout des légendes, des rapports historiques mêlés d'études de moeurs indiennes. L'exploitation de la veine d'aventure étant toujours le point de départ de toute littérature naissante, le roman canadien-francais s’était tourné vers la véritable aventure du Canada, c'est-à-dire la colonisation. Les thèmes en étaient l’attachement au sol, l’exploitation et le patriotisme. Mais la présentation était primitive. En 1914 "Le Temps" publie Maria Chapdelaine de Louis Hémon. Cette oeuvre a donné le ton à bien des romanciers canadiens-français, qui ont trouvé chez un écrivain venu de France les éléments qui leur manquaient, c'est-à-dire une technique, un style, l'observation exacte et l'analyse des caractères. Ce chef-d'oeuvre de Louis Hémon contient un thème important, celui de la lutte de l'homme contre la nature. Ce thème se trouve aussi dans les oeuvres de trois autres écrivains: Marie Le Franc, Georges Bugnet et Maurice Constantin-Weyer, tous arrivés de France au début du vingtième siècle. Cette thèse se propose d'etudier l'homme et la nature à travers les oeuvres de ces quatre écrivains français, et les éléments nouveaux qu'ils ont apportés à la littérature du Canada Français. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate