<p>The purpose of this essay is to investigate the melancholic, poetic language in Bübins unge (Bübin´s brat) by Mare Kandre (1962 – 2005). In my opinion the novel, which is about a teenage ritual, also gives an imaginary arena for archaic and unmentionable experiences of the libido. It is therefore a witness to the truth of the subjects complex mind. To my assistance I have Julia Kristeva´s theory on the abjection, the successful melancholia and her concepts of the outsider and the catharsis. The method I use in my investigation is an interpretation, which is both an analytic and a hermeneutic process, i.e. a deconstructive, analytic operation based on a theory on the language and the subject and a construing, hermeneutic movement. In my pursuit I investigate structures, which make the intermittent fragmented language readable and coherent. From this point of view I study words and effects (sensations) that relate to the contrast semiotic-symbolic in Bübins unge, and disentangle energy of the affect.</p><p>Mare Kandre, Bübins unge (1987). Julia Kristeva, Pouvoirs de l´horreur (1980) and Soleil noir (1987).</p>

Hen egg white lysozyme is a hydrolytic enzyme effective at preventing the growth of Gram positive bacteria by degrading the bacterial cell wall to a point of cell lysis. Investigating lysozyme as a processing tool in wine to control the growth of lactic acid bacteria and malolactic fermentation has significant commercial interest. In this project, the interactions of lysozyme with wine components and wine was evaluated along with the efficacy of lysozyme in preventing malolactic fermentation (MLF) in Oregon Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The information from this work, together with results from similar projects, will allow the development of guidelines for lysozyme use in commercial wine. Interactions of lysozyme with wine components were evaluated by measurement of enzymatic activity in the presence of wine acids, ethanol, and phenolics. Enzyme inhibition was observed, to various degrees, with all wine components. Crude grape tannin altered the availability of free enzyme by complexing to lysozyme and forming a precipitate. In a model wine system, lysozyme activity was reduced by 50% when tannin was present. Lysozyme addition to red wine resulted in a reduction in pigmented compounds and detectable sensory differences. Wine trials evaluated the efficacy of lysozyme in completely preventing malolactic fermentation (MLF) and terminating MLF midway through fermentation in Oregon Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Vintages from 1993 and 1994 were treated without SO₂, with SO₂, with SO₂ plus a starter culture of Leuconostoc oenos. Each lot was divided into 0 ppm lysozyme (control), 250 ppm lysozyme, 500 ppm lysozyme, and 1000 ppm lysozyme. Lactic acid bacteria were enumerated monthly, for ten months. Lysozyme prevented malolactic fermentation in all wines at the treatment levels of 500 and 1000 ppm. In the 1993 Pinot Noir, 250 ppm lysozyme prevented MLF but only delayed MLF in the 1994 vintage. Lysozyme effectively terminated MLF at a concentration between 200 and 300 ppm in both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. / Graduation date: 1996

The subject of our dissertation is the analysis of the function of color and of light and shadow in Le Rouge et le Noir and La Regenta. By function we mean the study of chromatic symbolism in these novels; each being a closed world in which the meaning depends neither on the author's personal existence nor on the external circumstances of the novel. The author then becomes a narrator who likewise only exists in his creation, and the historical circumstances of his era or time can only serve as references if they are explicitly or implicitly mentioned in the work. Colors therefore form a meaningful and coherent system in each work, and the object of our study is thus to explain and to compare the color systems of the two novels in question. There are three distinct functions in the chromatic schemes of Le Rouge et le Noir and La Regenta: an historical function, a social function and a religious function; each of which is analysed respectively in the three chapters of our dissertation. Each function also corresponds to two different reading levels in each novel: an historical and social level, as well as a religious level. The historical and social level, treated in the first two chapters, consists of a diachronic and synchronic study which manifests itself in the affective relationships which the characters maintain with the past, and in their capacity to adapt to both he political regime and to the system of individual and social values of their era. The religious level, treated in the third chapter, consists of an analysis of the importance given to the symbolic figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary in the creation of the characters. This religious symbolism accounts indirectly for each narrator's concept of the function of literature and the power of the book to right an historical situation which seems unacceptable to them. Thus, it is in the relationship between religion and language that one best perceives the narrator's point of view and the ultimate message of his work.

The purpose of this creative project is to explore the concept of character development as it appears in non-linear story formats. These formats are those of relatively recent technological advances that have paved the way for stories to be related to an audience in ways that are completely unique to each individual audience member. This project specifically is a murder mystery story, told in such a non-linear fashion. The story is capable of being viewed in a completely unique manner by each individual audience member. From this story, viewer's opinions have been examined, and conclusions have been drawn of the value and significance of non-linear story formats in relation to character development. / Department of Telecommunications

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

This thesis analyzes Paul Colin’s 1927 portfolio of lithographs entitled Le Tumulte Noir as an expression of the simultaneously progressive, celebratory, racist, and colonialist ideas about jazz music, dance, and blackness in Paris during the 1920s. Because the portfolio often demonstrates conflicting tropes for representing people of African American descent, for example minstrelsy vs. New Negro imagery, this thesis uses several methods for investigating the ambivalence of the artwork and the culture in which it was produced. The double-coding of meaning presented by parody, calligrams, and self-division are central to this analysis of Colin’s representations of the “Charlestonesque epidemic” in Jazz Age Paris. Images from Le Tumulte Noir are nearly ubiquitous in literature on the Parisian Jazz Age, and this thesis contextualizes the form, content, and iconography of the lithographs in light of the social and artistic history of 1920s Paris.

Tous deux écrivains afro-descendants de langue anglaise, faisant partie de la « diaspora noire », Toni Morrison et Derek Walcott sont reconnus pour l’éclairage poétique qu’ils offrent sur leur histoire et sur leur culture respective : les États-Unis pour Morrison et les Caraïbes pour Walcott. Cependant dans les œuvres, à la place des normes de révélation et de visibilité, se perçoit un « non-pouvoir » voir la culture, rejoignant un « non-pouvoir » dire l’histoire à la naissance des groupes culturels représentés. Malgré leurs spécificités poétiques, tous deux donnent forme à une même poétique de la dissimulation, qui problématise le concept de culture en le soumettant aux secrets entourant l’histoire de l’esclavage et du colonialisme qui leur est commune. Bouleversant les normes énonciatives, et à travers des personnages signés par un même mal ontologique relié à la différence raciale, les deux écritures donnent forme poétiquement au « problème noir » énoncé par Frantz Fanon, et « disent sans dire tout en disant » (Édouard Glissant) des secrets historiques et culturels que nous partageons. Poétique performative venant perturber les frontières linguistiques et énonciatives, la dissimulation engendre les questionnements suivants : qu’est-ce que signifie « noir », renvoyant à une différence raciale aussi bien en anglais (black) qu’en français, et aussi bien dans les textes, qu’au sein de notre contexte ? Comment passe-t-on de la différence raciale à la différence culturelle ? Comment cette différence est-elle produite ? Que signifie la « diaspora » ? Et comment les œuvres poétiques renouvellent-elles la culture, quand celle-ci apparaît problématique et négativée au départ ? / Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott, both English mother tongue writers from Afro-descendants, being part of the "black diaspora", are famous for the poetic analysis they propose about their history and their culture; the United States for Morrisson on the one hand, the Caribbean for Walcott on the other hand. However in their works, instead of the revelation and visibility standards, one can perceive a "no-power" to see culture along with a "no-power" to tell the history that gave birth to the cultural groups which are represented. Despite their poetic specificities, both give shape to the same poetics of dissimulation that puts the concept of culture into question submitting it to the secrets related to the history of slavery and colonialism that they both have in common. Shaking up the enonciation standards, using characters struck by the same ontological evil related to racial difference, both writings give shape poetically to the "black problem" enounced by Frantz Fanon and "say without saying while saying anyway" (Édouard Glissant) historical and cultural secrets that we share. As a performative poetics perturbing the linguistic and enunciative frontiers, the dissimulation produces the following questions: What does "black" mean, referring to a racial difference in English (black) as well as in French, but also in literature and within our context? How do we shift from a racial difference to a cultural difference? How is this difference produced? What does "diaspora" mean? How poetic works can renew culture when it appears problematic and negative from the very start?

Cette thèse apporte des éléments de description et d’analyse du registre littéraire que constitue l’humour noir. Elle s’appuie sur les réflexions développées par André Breton dans son Anthologie de l’humour noir (1966), tout en les resituant au sein des théories surréalistes et en démontrant que l’auteur construit un registre parfaitement adapté à la défense de ses opinions sur l’art et la modernité. La sélection effectuée par l’Anthologie peut alors être abordée sous un nouvel angle et étudiée d’un point de vue littéraire : l’humour noir peut ainsi être défini comme un registre bipolaire, reposant sur la confrontation entre deux tendances, l’une herméneutique et l’autre terroriste, mais qui interrogent toutes deux la valeur des discours tenus sur le monde. Les manifestations littéraires de l’humour noir peuvent ainsi être analysées, de même que les évolutions que connaît le registre à la suite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L’humour noir gagne en effet en popularité au sein des médias et les auteurs qui vont avoir recours à ce registre vont prendre en compte sa proximité avec des genres littéraires peu légitimes. Ces évolutions du registre sont étudiées à travers les œuvres de trois auteurs : Joyce Mansour, Roland Topor et Jean-Pierre Martinet. Leurs récits reposent sur des procédés similaires qui visent dans l’ensemble à déstabiliser les schémas narratifs traditionnels. Ainsi, l’humour noir interroge le lecteur sur ses habitudes de lecture et rompt le contrat passé avec l’auteur afin de remettre en cause l’idée d’une communauté possible à travers le partage – inégal – d’une culture et d’une langue communes. L’humour noir postule ainsi l’existence d’une communauté introuvable par la littérature, au sein de récits qui revendiquent leur illégitimité. / This dissertation offers new elements for the description and the analysis of the literary register that is dark humour. It is based on the considerations that André Breton developed in his Anthologie de l’humour noir (1966), and at the same time, it replaces them within the surrealist theories, in order to demonstrate that the author creates a register perfectly suited to the defence of his opinions about art and Modernity. The selection that is made in the Anthologie can henceforth be approached with a fresh eye and analyzed from a literary point of view : dark humour would then be defined as a bipolar register, built on a confrontation between two tendencies, a hermeneutic one and a terrorist one, but which both question the value of the speeches that pretend to represent reality. The literary features of dark humour can thus be analyzed, as well as its evolutions after the Second World War. Indeed, at that time, dark humour becomes more popular in the media, and the authors who use it take into account its acquaintances with literary genres that lack legitimacy. The evolutions of the register are studied through the work of three writers : Joyce Mansour, Roland Topor and Jean-Pierre Martinet. Their narratives follow similar patterns which, on the whole, aim to dismantle the traditional narrative schemes. Thus, dark humour questions the reader about his reading habits and breaks the contract entered into with the author, in order to call into question the possibility of a community unified by the – unequal – share of a common culture and language. Dark humour thereby postulates the existence of a community that cannot be found by literature, within narratives that claim their illegitimacy.

De Toussaint Louverture à Fanny – l'héroïne du roman de Marie Ndiaye En Famille– l'emploi et la réception des mots « noir » ou « nègre » correspondent soit à une lutte de la reconnaissance réciproque entre le maître et l'esclave soit à la révolte du sujet noir qui impose son droit à la parole ou encore au déni de cette lutte pour fonder un projet sociétal qui ne repose plus sur l'occultation de l'Autre mais sur un dialogue interculturel. Au XIXème siècle, contrairement aux textes scientifiques qui réifient le sujet nègre afin de le catégoriser, la littérature, quant à elle, promeut l'interaction et l’intersubjectivité en mettant en scène l'appréhension du sujet noir et du sujet blanc au sein de la métropole. L'expérience de l'Ailleurs se vérifie aussi en France où les sujets s'interrogent sur leurs places respectives dans l'espace commun. Si ce siècle est marqué par des valeurs européo-centristes qui rejettent l'humanité du sujet noir, le XXème siècle, quant à lui, révèle, une parole nègre qui les conteste en revendiquant sa dignité. Cependant, les désillusions des indépendances et des départementalisations découvrent aussi bien les limites de l'européocentrisme que celles de cette parole nègre car les essentialismes n'enraient ni la solitude ni le désarroi de l'être. Dans les textes littéraires, scientifiques et politiques, la production et la réception des mots « noir » et « nègre » témoignent des tentatives d'émancipation de la domination de l'Autre pour constituer une poétique et un projet sociétal qui s'appuie sur l'éthique d'un dialogue entre les cultures et entre les genres. / From Toussaint Louverture to Fanny – the heroine of Marie NDiaye novel’s En famille – the use and reception of these words refer either to a struggle for recognition between mas-ters and slaves or to the uprising of the black man who imposes his right to the freedom of speech or the denial of this struggle in order to found a society project which no longer relies on the obliteration of the Other but on an intercultural dialogue. In 19th century, despite the scientific texts reifying the Black man in order to categorize him, literature promotes interac-tion and intersubjectivity by portraying the apprehension of Blacks and Whites. Experiencing each other in France is questioned within a common space. Whereas this century marked by Eurocentrism values denying the humanity of the Black man, the 20th century reveals that the Negro speech puts into question these values by claiming his dignity. After the Second World War however, the independence and the departmentalization brought disillusion, revealing both the limits of Eurocentrism and the word Negro since essentialisms have neither the soli-tude nor the dismay in being. In literature, science and politics, the production of the words « black » and « negro » and its response bears witness to the attempts of the emancipation from the Other’s domination to create a common poetics and society based on a project effi-cient dialogue between culture and genders.

Ce mémoire de master a l’objectif de contribuer avec aux rares études à propos de la dramaturgie de Vinicius de Moraes, spécifiquement en concernant Orfeu da Conceição (1954), la deuxième pièce de théâtre de l’auteur. Pour ce faire, il est récapitulé avant, pendant et après de la pièce les principaux oeuvres de Vinicius, comme ses poèmes, ses compositions musicales (la Bossa Nova et le MPB), sa dramaturgie et sa prose, au de-là de faits importants de sa vie personnelle, comme la Faculté du Catete, sa relation avec Waldo Frank, son emploi dans la diplomatie et ses mariages. De plus, il est fait des études détaillées sur les oeuvres Orfeu da Conceição et Orfeu Negro (et ses respectives albuns). Ainsi, ce mémoire est organisé en cinq parties: la première s’appelle “Vinicius avant Orfeu da Conceição”, avec ses livres de poèmes transcendantaux et conservateurs et sa relation avec Octávio de Faria; la deuxième partie “Vinicius da Conceição”, avec l’analyse approfondie de la pièce; la troisième partie s’appelle “Camus Negro”, avec l’analyse approfondie du film; la quatrième partie “Les chansons des Orfeus et la Bossa Nova”, en comprenant un étude à propos des deux albuns des oeuvres que postérieurement culminerait dans la Bossa Nova, et finalement la cinquième partie qui s’appelle “Vinicius après Orfeu da Conceição”, quand l’artiste se dédie presque exclusivement aux compositions et aux concerts, et il se convertit au candomblé. Le spectacle musical Orfeu da Conceição synthétise la vie de Vinicius de Moraes parce qu’il montre en évidence ses transformations personnelles: de la poésie à la chanson, du christianisme aux candomblé et de la droite à la gauche. / Esta dissertação de mestrado possui o objetivo de contribuir com os escassos estudos sobre a dramaturgia de Vinicius de Moraes, especificamente sobre Orfeu da Conceição (1954), a segunda peça de teatro do autor. Para isso, são recapituladas as principais obras de Vinicius antes, durante e depois da peça, como seus poemas, composições (Bossa Nova e MPB), dramaturgia e prosa, além de fatos importantes de sua vida pessoal, como Faculdade do Catete, a relação com Waldo Frank, a diplomacia e os seus casamentos. Além disso, são feitos estudos detalhados sobre as obras Orfeu da Conceição e Orfeu Negro, adaptação fílmica da peça dirigida por Marcel Camus (e seus respectivas trilhas sonoras). Assim, esta dissertação está organizada em cinco partes: a primeira, chamada Vinicius antes de Orfeu da Conceição, abrange seus livros de poemas transcendentais e conservadores e sua relação com Octávio de Faria; a segunda parte, Vinicius da Conceição, apresenta a análise minuciosa da peça; a terceira parte, chamada Camus Negro, apresenta a análise minuciosa do filme; a quarta parte, As canções dos Orfeus e a Bossa Nova, contém um estudo sobre os dois álbuns das obras que posteriormente culminaram na Bossa Nova; por fim, a quinta parte, chamada Vinicius depois de Orfeu da Conceição, trata de quando o artista passa a se dedicar quase exclusivamente às composições e aos shows e se converte ao candomblé. O musical Orfeu da Conceição sintetiza a vida de Vinicius de Moraes, pois evidencia as suas transformações pessoais: da poesia para a canção, do catolicismo para as religiões afro-brasileiras e da direita para esquerda.