Mémoire (M.A.) - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1999. / Bibliogr.: p. [115]-122.

My thesis studies rewriting in the works of Madeleine Ferron. I analyze passages Ferron took from her own writings and rewrote in later texts. Between 1960 and 1995, Ferron produced 114 texts; they include tales, short stories, articles, novels, ethnographic studies and biographies. The author rewrote twenty-two passages and four complete texts. My study describes and analyzes the functions of the rewriting process in these texts: it explores, among others, literary devices, thematic structures and the manner in which the rewritings determine editorial strategies. Rewriting is at the core of the Ferronian esthetic and is here characterized by the transposition of genres, and corresponding processes of fictionalization or defictionalization. I identify three stages in Madeleine Ferron's writing career: the early years (1960--1970), when Jacques Ferron (her brother, a well-known writer) rewrote Madeleine's texts, the period during which her major works were produced (1971--1989); and 1990 to 1995, the period that saw the publication of her most "personal" texts; these chronological divisions correspond to the three main chapters of this thesis.

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