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This thesis examines the novels of quebecois writer Marie-Claire Blais from a North American feminist literary critical perspective. It challenges the assumption that francophone women writers should only be studied from a French Feminist perspective by attempting to situate Blais' writing within a North-American "female literary tradition". Issues of Blais' cultural specifity as a quebecois writer are also addressed.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Notre intention, dans cette these, est d'examiner par une analyse interne le degre de coherence artistique qui existe aux niveaux symboliques, thematiques et structuraux dans Le Jour est noir de Marie-Claire Blais. A cette fin, nous nous servirons de trois methodes critiques: critique phenomenologique, critique thematique et critique structurale. Le premier chapitre etudie la symbolique du temps selon une methode phenomenologique. Dans le roman, les images qui se referent a l'eau constituent l'expression centrale du temps, formant un reseau temporel et spatial qui symbolise le passe, le present et l'avenir des person-nages. L'Eau est evoquee sous plusieurs aspects: la mer, la riviere, le brouillard et la neige. Leurs nuances symboliques seront examinees. Le deuxieme chapitre etudie la thematique de l'a-lienation. Deux niveaux d'alienation sont decrits: une alienation relative et une alienation absolue. Le troisieme chapitre examine la structure interieure du roman a la lumiere des observations de Claude Bremond sur la structure des oeuvres romanesques parues dans son article "La Logique des possibles narratifs." / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

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In Marie-Claire Blais's trilogy Soifs, the history of the 20th Century is registered in an inter-cultural and inter-discursive realm both as a history which is "infernal" (chaotic, violent, fragmented) and as one which is civilizing. The objective of this study is to observe and comment on this double inscription, to evaluate how it takes charge of and modulates signs and representations already in circulation in social discourse. The author seeks to discern the inter-discursive work of manipulation and translation of social discourse from a point of view which is at once formal, narrative, linguistic and ideological, to ultimately identify the ideological work of Blais's novels on a fundamental stake within current society: the historical past.