Gabrielle Roy kept up, throughout her literary life, a regular correspondence with relatives, friends, business relations and readers: to date, more than 2000 letters have been preserved in different archive collections. The 482 letters she wrote to her husband, Doctor Marcel Carbotte, between 1947 and 1979, form the largest subset of the correspondence; a critical edition of these hitherto unpublished letters is presented in the second part of the thesis. / Surprisingly, the correspondence contains few reflexions of an aesthetic nature, and few explicit traces of the novelist's published work, apart from occasional references to the texts she is working on at the moment she is writing to Marcel. Instead, it is the details of her day-to-day life that Roy describes most abundantly. In the first part of the thesis, we study the letters to Marcel in the light of a possible connection with Roy's canonical work: we start by examining the link between the letter and autobiographical genre; we then show that the letters to Marcel can be read as a personal diary; finally, we suggest that the "autobiographical turn" taken by Roy in both her published work and her letters to Marcel indicates that the letters form part of the same system as the autobiographical works.

Photojournalism in Quebec's newspapers is studied through the perspective of the essential contribution played by communication in an exercise of democracy. Inspired by some deconstructionist sociological methods, the theoretical framework is based on hegemony and social discourse. A review of the literature unveils the major cognitive models which deal with photojournalism and comments the context of information in Quebec. / A computerized and hermeneutic analysis coupled with a review of the interaction of the image with the page support the inferences. Not only some disturbing disparities are shown in the visual representation, but those disparities appear to be submitted to the current doxic rules. Finally, a synthesis establishes the hegemonical convergences which support those values and presents the ideological activities of photojournalism. The researcher draws his conclusion from the current process of information and is worried of its impact on the capacity of self-governing.

Quebec knew a long tradition of regionalistic literature since the novel of the soil, tradition with which the writers of Quebec broke for a long time. However, certain writers still practice a regionalistic form of literature, which does not have anything to see with the novel of the soil. Within the literary institution, the regionalistic writers of today seem to belong to a sphere of distinct production. In order to delimit the space occupied by the contemporary regionalistic writers, we based ourselves on the theory of the literary field of Pierre Bourdieu and the theory of the institution of the literature of Jacques Dubois. So as to apply the model of Bourdieu and Dubois to a typical example of contemporary regionalistic writer, we chose to concentrate us on the career of Sylvain Riviere, Gaspesian writer born in 1955. Sylvain Riviere seems to be the regionalistic writer par excellence, who devoted the most part of his work to his region, Gaspesia and the Magdalen Islands. The example of Sylvain Riviere shows us that in spite of his marginality, the regionalistic writer is able to find his place inside the contemporary literary field.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of French, Classics, and Italian, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 20, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-148). Also issued in print.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke, 1996. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1936. / Thesis note on label mounted on t.p. The original dissertation, in English, has title: The regional literature of French Canada. "Bibliographie": p. [255]-270.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université d'Ottawa, 1997. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

Thèse (Ph.D.)--Université de Sherbrooke, 1999. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on Oct. 20, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in French Language, Literatures and Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. University of Alberta, Fall 2009." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1936. / Thesis note on label mounted on t.p. The original dissertation, in English, has title: The regional literature of French Canada. "Bibliographie": p. [255]-270.