La production littéraire de Claude Mathieu, s’étalant de 1957 à 1965, tranche avec les oeuvres de ses contemporains. Le plus souvent, ces derniers défendent un nationalisme moderne et mettent à l’avant-plan le territoire et la société québécoise. De son côté, Mathieu aborde des thèmes plus généraux, par exemple le temps, l’art ou l’érotisme, qui trahissent ses sources d’inspiration issues de la littérature française et des littératures étrangères. Cet aspect est plutôt inusité chez les écrivains québécois de la décennie 1960. Dans cette analyse intertextuelle, nous cherchons à montrer la singularité de l’écriture de Claude Mathieu. Nous exposons ses principales sources et influences littéraires afin de comprendre comment il s’en inspire et comment elles orientent sa poétique où domine le fantastique teintée d’images surréalistes. L’analyse est constituée de deux chapitres. Le premier est consacré au recueil Vingt petits écrits ou le mirliton rococo. Les textes étudiés sont regroupés en trois sections, selon l’époque des références qui les appuient, soit les littératures hellénique, classique et moderne. Le second chapitre traite de La mort exquise, l’oeuvre la plus importante de Claude Mathieu. En analysant les principaux textes de ce recueil, nous montrons comment l’influence d’André Pieyre de Mandiargues et de Jorge Luis Borges s’impose face à la multitude de références diverses convoquées dans le premier recueil de nouvelles de Mathieu. Nous montrons également comment ces influences sont absorbées et transformées pour créer une écriture originale. / Claude Mathieu’s literary production, spanning from 1957 to 1965, differs quite a lot from the work of his contemporaries. Most often, they defend a modern nationalism and bring to the forefront Quebec’s society and territory. For his part, Mathieu discusses more general topics, such as time, art or erotism, inspired by French and foreign literature. This is rather original among Quebec writers of the 1960s. With this intertextual analysis, we seek to show the singularity of Claude Mathieu’s writing. We outline its main literary sources and influences in order to understand how he is inspired and how they guide his poetics. The analysis consists of two chapters. The first is devoted to the collection Vingt petits écrits ou le mirliton rococo. The texts studied are grouped into three sections, depending on the time of the references that support them, either Hellenic, classical or modern literature. The second chapter deals with La mort exquise, the most important work of Claude Mathieu. By analyzing the main pieces of this collection, we show how the influence of André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Jorge Luis Borges became larger than all the various references convened in the first collection of Mathieu’s short stories. We also show how these influences are absorbed and transformed to create an original writing.

This research examines the significance of water as it has been used as a subject in the visual arts, with particular concentration on the use of geometry as a means of accessing pictorial possibilities. The study focuses specifically on selected paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), Oscar Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Pat Steir (1940-) including some of Steir's etchings, to further demonstrate her thought processes and techniques. It is argued that the paintings of all three artists, although widely divergent yet include threads of commonality and convergence. All explore the fundamental structure of nature (in this case water) through geometry. In addition, spatial concepts through the use of light and colour are closely intertwined and give rise to metaphysical implications. Turner and Monet broke the bonds of the existing academic composition and style of painting. Their paintings pointed the way for artists of the twentieth century, like Steir to further explore the close relationship between the motif and abstract painting. References to paintings, other than the selected paintings, by these artists will be made in order to illustrate their different approaches yet similar objectives. Finally the relevance of the study to the candidate's own work will be correlated. The dissertation intends to offer a new interpretation of water as a subject in painting, by illuminating and illustrating aspects of the selected paintings by Turner, Monet and Steir. In conclusion, it is anticipated that this discourse will enrich and complement previous interpretations of water, when used as a subject in visual art. It is also envisaged that the study will suggest further research on the subject. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.

Qu'ils soient composés par des explorateurs, des membres du clergé ou des diplomates, les écrits de la Nouvelle-France ont une forte portée rhétorique. Les fonctions qui leur sont attribuées, voire les motifs de rédaction de ces textes, sont généralement d'ordres politique, religieux ou économique. L'expression de ces fonctions ponctue la narration et se dessine de différentes façons. Dans la « Lettre XII » de l'Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale, Bacqueville de La Potherie se présente comme un témoin cohérent et lucide des circonstances entourant la Grande paix de Montréal de 1701. L'auteur rend compte des événements diplomatiques ayant mené à la signature de ce traité entre les nations autochtones alliées, les Iroquois et les Français. L'exclusion de La Potherie aux pourparlers de paix est la pierre angulaire .de notre recherche. En effet, les notions de conflit des codes et de scénographie révèlent l'ethos d'un narrateur sensé, sincère et sympathique. Dans notre mémoire, elles dévoilent un narrateur éclairé qui connaît le sujet traité. La première notion est le résultat du métissage entre des éléments référentiels antérieurs au texte et des éléments nouveaux qui y sont intégrés. La scénographie détermine les codes d'écriture que l'énonciateur choisit ou non de transgresser : elle est à la fois la provenance du discours et ce qui rend possible et essentiel ce discours, ce qui le légitime. Dans l'ouvrage, la scénographie du diplomate français créée par l'auteur relève de la fiction, mais elle s'inscrit dans la narration d'un fait historique, voire la signature d'un traité de paix. Tous ces éléments divergents contribuent à construire son ethos en organisant une « négociation » entre une scénographie de l'homme politique éclairé et la scène générique de l'historien traditionnel. Nous démontrons que la lettre dessine l'ethos d'un narrateur qui se fait valoir auprès de son destinataire, le ministre Jérôme Phélyppeaux de Pontchartrain. Avec son œuvre, l'auteur espère peut-être que ce dirigeant français exerce une pression sur le gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France, Louis-Hector de Callières, et insiste pour que ce dernier l'intègre aux pourparlers. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : scénographie, ethos, conflit des codes, Bacqueville de La Potherie, grande paix de Montréal, rhétorique.

In the course of the twentieth century, art became increasingly dominated by market forces. Private corporations and public administrations, including cities, used art as a development tool. In the post-industrial era, art was assimilated to a cultural industry and those whom we label "black collars" succeeded to the blue collar workers of the industrial era and to the white collar workers of the modern city. / In the late 1960s, public sculpture spread in the urban landscape. In the same period, a new generation of artists was trying to create ecological works of art, forms that are associated with post-modernism in art. But there were few works of art that were linked to nature, when compared with the quantity of sculptures exhibited in the plazas of skyscrapers. Why? To answer this question, this research uses the sociology of art as a methodology, particularly the methodology developed by Pierre Bourdieu. The thesis presents the case of Montreal, and compares it to that of New York City. It includes case studies of Viger Square and of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Garden, two public spaces designed by Montreal artists. We examine the factors that contributed to the predominance of a specific art form, the sculpture in a plaza, and to the rarity of the garden: the characteristics of the genre (garden versus sculpture); the relationships between the main actors; the art market and the manipulation of demand; the various policies associated with art/culture and with urban development; the interests of patrons (be they public or private). All these factors had an influence on the art forms in the city, often labelled "public art" or "art integrated with architecture." The study reveals that the post-modern economy exhibited works of art that are seldom associated with post-modernism in art. The model of the sculpture in a plaza did not dominate the modernist urban development, but it reflects more a post-modernist morphology.

This thesis argues that the end of Soviet Marxism and a bipolar global political imaginary at the dissolution of the short Twentieth Century poses an obstacle for anti-systemic political action. Such a blockage of alternate political imaginaries can be discerned by reading the work of Francis Fukuyama and "Endism" as performative invocations of the closure of political alternatives, and thus as an ideological proclamation which enables and constrains forms of social action. It is contended that the search through dialectical thought for a competing universal to posit against "liberal democracy" is a fruitless one, because it reinscribes the terms of teleological theories of history which work to effect closure. Rather, constructing a phenomenological analytic of the political conjuncture, the thesis suggests that the figure of messianism without a Messiah is central to a deconstructive reframing of the possibilities of political action - a reframing attentive to the rhetorical tone of texts. The project of recovering the political is viewed through a phenomenological lens. An agonistic political distinction must be made so as to memorialise the remainders and ghosts of progress, and thus to gesture towards an indeconstructible justice which would serve as a horizon for the articulation of an empty universal. This project is furthered by a return to a certain phenomenology inspired by Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ernesto Laclau. The thesis provides a reading of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin as thinkers of a minor universalism, a non-prescriptive utopia, and places their work in the context of new understandings of religion and the political as quasi-transcendentals which can be utilised to think through the aporias of political time in order to grasp shards of meaning. Derrida and Chantal Mouffe's deconstructive critique and supplement to Carl Schmitt's concept of the political is read as suggestive of a reframing of political thought which would leave the political question open and thus enable the articulation of social imaginary significations able to inscribe meaning in the field of political action. Thus, the thesis gestures towards a form of thought which enables rather than constrains action under the sign of justice.

Mémoire (M.E.L)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1997. / Ce mémoire a été réalisé à Chicoutimi dans le cadre du programme de maîtrise en études littéraires de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières extensionné à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. CaQCU Bibliogr.: f. [238]-252. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thèse (de maîtrise)--Université Laval, 2003. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 29 novembre 2004). Bibliogr. Présenté aussi en version papier.

Cette thèse porte sur les processus de constitution – problématiques – de femmes comme intellectuelles au XXe siècle. Pour ce faire, trois cas, nés vers 1900, sont étudiés : l’artiste et écrivaine proche des avant-gardes en général et des surréalistes en particulier dans le Paris des années 1920-1930 Claude Cahun, la journaliste martiniquaise du Paris colonial de ces mêmes années et figure militante et intellectuelle importante de la Martinique d’après-guerre Paulette Nardal ; et enfin Viola Klein, juive tchèque exilée en Angleterre et pionnière oubliée de la sociologie féministe. Cette étude repose sur une analyse conjointe de la trajectoire et de la production culturelle de chacune de ces femmes. Il s’agit de comprendre comment leur expérience intellectuelle s’enracine dans des processus de prise de conscience de soi en tant que sujet renvoyé à l’altérité, femme, mais aussi sujet racialisé, qui déterminent les formes d’entrée dans la pensée. Cette thèse rend également compte du positionnement complexe, dedans/dehors, de ces femmes par rapport aux mouvements (le surréalisme pour Cahun, la culture noire en général et la négritude en particulier pour Nardal), et disciplines (la sociologie de la connaissance et du travail pour Klein) « dans » lesquels elles s’inscrivent et ce qu’elles y apportent ainsi que la pluralité des formes de pensée et d’engagement qu’une telle position liminale révèle. Il s’agit enfin d’interroger le processus de diffusion et de réception des oeuvres et des idées, dans lequel les logiques d’invisibilisation et d’oubli, mais aussi de redécouverte, jouent un rôle fondamental. Ce dernier point ouvre sur une réflexion relative aux logiques (nationales, disciplinaires, idéologiques) de construction du savoir. Cette thèse, interrogeant le devenir sujet des femmes et ce que peut lui faire la postérité, se propose ainsi de contribuer à une histoire intellectuelle transnationale des femmes et du genre. / This thesis analyzes the problematic ways in which women were able to become intellectuals in the XXth century. The cases of three women, born around 1900, are here studied. The artist and writer close to the Avant-Garde in general and the Surrealist movement in particular in the 20s and the 30s Claude Cahun; the Martinican journalist of colonial Paris in those same years Paulette Nardal, an important intellectual and activist figure in Post War Martinique after 1945; and last but not least, Viola Klein, a Czech Jew, exiled in Britain, and a forgotten pioneer of feminist sociology.This study is based upon an analysis of both the itinerary and cultural production of each of these women. It aims to understand how their intellectual experience is rooted in processes of self-awareness – as subjects who have to deal with otherness, as women, but also as racialized subjects – which shape the way in which these women intellectuals come to thought and commitment. This thesis also examines the complex position, Inside/Outside, of these women in relation to the movements and disciplines they join (Surrealism for Cahun, Négritude for Nardal, Sociology of Knowledge for Klein), the contribution they make to these movements and disciplines, and the plurality of the forms of thought and commitment such a liminal position entails. The aim is to question the ways in which works and ideas are spread and received – a process in which “invisibilization”, oblivion, but also rediscovery play a major part. This last idea opens up a reflection about the conceptions (national, disciplinary, ideological) pertaining to the construction of knowledge.

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This thesis examines the roles of the sublime and the beautiful in the works of eighteenth-century French landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet. An introduction to the study, a history of the sublime and beautiful, and an overview of the way these ideas are portrayed in Vernet's calm and storm pendants are provided. How commissions for these pendants relate to theoretical developments of the sublime and beautiful and how Vernet became aware of the these ideas are addressed. The thesis shows Vernet was not dependent on British patrons or on the century's most influential aesthetic treatise on the sublime and the beautiful by Edmund Burke, because Vernet started painting such themes well before Burke's treatise (1757) and did so in response to French patrons.