Mémoire (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2003. / Bibliogr.: f. [100]-106. Également disponible en format microfiche et PDF.

Mémoire (M.A.) - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1999. / Bibliogr.: p. [125]-135.

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2009. Program in Romance Languages and Literatures. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63).

This thesis investigates Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers and Hubert Aquin's Prochain épisode in terms, of postcolonial and postmodern theory. These novels are often interpreted as being either one or the other. Critics rarely take into consideration that both of these works have features which can be seen to fit both theories. Both of these authors are valued as some of the more difficult novels to comprehend in terms of Canadian novels making this thesis even more complex and a challenge to write. It made sense to choose to investigate these two works side by side because they have a lot of similarities. Some of these resemblances range from aspects as basic as the time period when the novels were written to the author's methods of using history to make social commentary. It was also important to use two writers from Montreal, each from one of the two solitudes, in order to explore how their novels fit postmodern and postcolonial theories. This theoretical thesis attempts to show how both Leonard Cohen and Hubert Aquin do not use their writing for a nihilistic purpose. Each author uses historical situations to display a hope for new beginnings in the future. Despite all of the literature that exists on both Leonard Cohen and Hubert Aquin, this study tries to show a different interpretation then what has already been done.

This memoir is made of two parts. / The first part is a study of Hubert Aquin's novel Neige Noire that emphasizes the romanesque possibilities offered by intertextuality. One can see how the "mise en abyme" as an intertextual work, is well linked around Hamlet's myth, and how this myth influences various aspects in the text such as: time, themes and persons. / The second part of this memoir is a story, "Oslo," that builds up an intertextual rapport with Neige Noire. The framework and the principal character in Hubert Aquin's novel infiltrate in our narrative in such a way that it establishes a mythical relation with the story, as Neige Noire with Hamlet.

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Zugl.: Diss., 2007

Zugl.: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2005

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