This paper addresses intertextual similarities of ethnographical and geographical details in Xenophon’s Anabasis and Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica and argues that these intertextualities establish a narrative timeline of Greek civilization on the Black Sea littoral. In both these works, a band of Greek travellers proceeds along the southern coast of the Black Sea, but in different directions and at vastly different narrative times. I argue that Apollonius’ text, written later than Xenophon’s, takes full advantage of these intertextualities in such a way as to retroject evidence about the landscape of the Black Sea littoral. This geographical and ethnographical information prefigures the arrival of Xenophon’s Ten Thousand in the region. By manipulating the differences in narrative time and time of composition, Apollonius sets his Argonauts up as precursors to the Ten Thousand as travellers in the Black Sea and spreaders of Greek civilization there. In Xenophon’s text, the whole Black Sea littoral becomes a liminal space of transition between non-Greek and Greek. As the Ten Thousand travel westward and get closer and closer to home and Greek civilization, they encounter pockets of Greek culture throughout the Black Sea, nestled in between swaths of land inhabited by native tribes of varying and unpredictable levels of civilization. On the other hand, in the Argonautica, Apollonius sets the Argonautic voyage along the southern coast of the Black Sea coast as a direct, linear progression from Greek to non-Greek. As the Argonauts move eastward, the peoples and places they encounter become stranger and less recognizably civilized. This progression of strangeness and foreignness works to build suspense and anticipation of the Argonauts’ arrival at Aietes’ kingdom in Colchis. However, some places have already been visited before by another Greek traveller, Heracles, who appears in both the Argonautica and the Anabasis to mark the primordial progression of Greek civilization in the Black Sea region. The landscape and the peoples who inhabit it have changed in the intervening millennium of narrative time between first Heracles’, then the Argonauts’, and finally the Ten Thousand’s journey, and they show the impact of the visits of all three. / text

With new technology come new possibilities for the creation of artistic works. The invention of sound recording at end of the nineteenth century enabled musical performances to be “written” in the same manner as traditional, printed literature. The status of records as a form of writing and, moreover, as the material for further writing is demonstrated in the work of two hip hop artists, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, who assemble new, heteroglossic texts out of a wide array of sampled records. Two concerts, Product Placement (2004) and The Hard Sell (2008) – both of which have been memorialized on DVD – serve as fruitful examples of the potential for artistic production enabled by technology. Indeed, the genre of turntablism, which involves the live manipulation of vinyl records, requires the usage of technology in ways not intended by its original developers – a recurrent theme throughout the history of sound recording. By transforming the turntable from a passive playback device into an active compositional tool, turntablism collapses the distance between consumption and production and so turns the listener into a performer. Furthermore, the exclusive usage of 45 rpm records as the source texts for the two sets dramatizes theories of intertextuality while simultaneously tracing the constraints placed on such artistic piracy by the copyright regime. These texts entail more than just their cited musical content; they also involve visual components. These include not only the video imagery that accompanies and comments on the records being played, but also the physical performance of the DJs themselves and the spectacle of the attending crowds whose response to the music constitutes part of the text itself. Following a theoretical and historical background that will situate these works within the history of hip hop and literature in general, this study will explicate these two multimedia texts and reveal how they demonstrate a concern not only with the history of sound recording, but also such issues as the influence of technology on cultural production, the complication of authorship through intertextuality, and the relationship between culture and commerce. Above all, however, both the form and content of these two performances also serve to highlight the value of physical media as historical artifacts in the face of increasing challenges from incorporeal digital media.

The principal argument of this thesis is that royalist literary publishing in the civil wars and Interregnum was a more coherent and wider movement than has been recognised. It asserts the importance of print culture to royalists, both as a vehicle for personal responses to political circumstances, and as a means to criticize and undermine the opposition. The thesis uses the publisher Humphrey Moseley as a lens through which to examine the publisher's role in the dissemination of a wide range of royalist texts. It demonstrates that publishers, as well as authors, were driven by their political and ideological opinions. The thesis begins by establishing that the royalist and Anglican convictions expressed within the texts published by Moseley corresponded with his own. This opening chapter also demonstrates the editorial control that he exerted when publishing a book. Next follow five case studies. In the second chapter I examine writings of Moseley's most prolific author, James Howell. I show that until the censorship legislation of September 1649, Howell published royalist polemical pamphlets. I argue that in response to the censorship act Howell shifted to a more subtle method of polemical writing, most notably when he embedded extracts from his polemical pamphlets in his historical allegory Dodona's Grove which Moseley published in 1650. Chapters Three to Six are genre-based case studies. These chapters analyse the ways that a variety of genres were used by royalists in support of the Stuart cause and the Anglican Church. In the final chapter I set Moseley within the context of royalist publishing more widely. I review the careers of Henry Seile and Richard Royston to demonstrate that Moseley was not the only publisher committed to the royalist cause and that his productions belonged to a broad spectrum of royalist publishing.

Ce mémoire porte sur le travail de l’intertextualité dans les quatre oeuvres que Jorge Semprun (1923-) a consacrées à ses souvenirs de déportation au camp de Buchenwald : Le grand voyage (1963), Quel beau dimanche! (1980), L’écriture ou la vie (1994) et Le mort qu’il faut (2001). Chaque oeuvre poursuit la recherche d’un langage approprié à la narration d’une expérience qui résiste obstinément à sa représentation. L’intertextualité, de même que les réminiscences musicales, filmiques ou picturales, composent chez Semprun une image complexe de l’expérience du déporté, faisant coexister l’ombre et la lumière, l’angoisse et la joie, le mal radical et la fraternité, loin de tout cliché manichéen. Il s’agira ici de lire ce témoignage magnifique sur les camps nazis comme un dialogue profond entre l’art et la barbarie, la création et la destruction, la mémoire culturelle et la mémoire traumatique. / This essay covers the issue of intertextuality in the four works that Jorge Semprun (1923-) wrote about his memories from Buchenwald : Le grand voyage (1963), Quel beau dimanche! (1980), L’écriture ou la vie (1994) and Le mort qu’il faut (2001). Each work stems from the search of an apropriate language for narrating an experience that poses a radical challenge to its représentation. Intertextuality, as well as memories of works of art, yield a complex image of the experience of a survivor, where shadow and light, anguish and joy, Radical Evil and fraternity coexist, far away from the traditional cliché. The objective here is to read Semprun’s wounderfull testimonies as a profound dialogue between art and the Holocaust, creation and destruction, cultural memory and traumatic memory.

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

Ce mémoire porte sur l’identification et l’analyse de la pratique intertextuelle dans cinq œuvres contemporaines de l’Oulipo: Les Gens de Légende (Olivier Salon), La Décomposition (Anne F Garréta), Vanghel (Jacques Jouet) Trois Pontes (Jacques Jouet) et Eléctrico W (Hervé Le Tellier). En partant d’un réexamen des différentes théories de l’intertextualité, les lectures microtextuelles présentées ici cherchent à mettre en évidence la complexité et l’ambigüité du concept de filiation littéraire dans le processus d’écriture oulipien - que celui-ci soit interne (références aux travaux des membres du mouvement) ou externe (la littérature classique). Sont également examinées en détail les notions de contrainte et de plagiat par anticipation, mais aussi la volonté propre à l’Oulipo de mettre le lecteur dans une position particulière dans l’histoire littéraire. / The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze intertextual practices in five contemporary works by Oulipo writers: Les Gens de Légende (Olivier Salon), La Décomposition (Anne F Garréta), Vanghel (Jacques Jouet) Trois Pontes (Jacques Jouet) and Eléctrico W (Hervé Le Tellier). Following a review of the various theories of intertextuality available, the microtextual readings presented here seek to shed a new light on the complexity and ambiguity of the concept of literary filiation in the Oulipian writing process - either internal (references to works by members of the movement proper) or external (classical literature). Are also discussed in some detail the concepts of “contrainte” (constraint) and “plagiat par anticipation” (plagiarism by anticipation), but also the specific Oulipian aspiration to place the reader into a position that appears to be unique in literary history.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Partant du sonnet « À une passante » de Baudelaire pour aboutir aux écrits de Breton en parcourant un florilège de textes traitant de la première rencontre, nous avons exploré dans un premier temps les spécificités de la scène poétique relativement à la scène romanesque étudiée par Jean Rousset. Dans un second temps, nous avons cherché à saisir les nouvelles caractéristiques du scénario moderne par rapport aux configurations classique et romantique. En adressant à l’inconnue croisée dans une rue de Paris le poème qu’elle a suscité l’instant d’un coup d’œil fugitif, Baudelaire crée un poncif amoureux nouveau. Dans ce sonnet, le cadre spatio-temporel, les acteurs, la rencontre et l’amour portent l’empreinte de la modernité jusqu’à en devenir l’emblème. D’autres poètes reprendront sur le mode de l’imitation ou de la variation le modèle baudelairien, et notamment la figure de la passante. Le poème de la première rencontre devient alors le lieu de la célébration d’une nouvelle figure féminine mais surtout d’une nouvelle lyrique qui n’est rien de moins qu’une érotique de la distance séparatrice. Chaque poème nous montre à sa façon que l’unique scène signifiante est celle du désir (qui déchire le poète et son lecteur) et que l’écriture d’une rencontre sans issue est l’ultime échappatoire contre l’absence. / Starting from the sonnet "To a passer-by" of Baudelaire to lead to the writings of Breton by traversing a group of texts treating of the first meeting, we initially explored specificities of the poetic scene compared to the romantic scene studied by Jean Rousset. In a second step, we sought to understand the new features of modern scenario compared ti the classical and romantic settings. By sending to unknown crossed in a street of Paris the poem that she aroused the moment all at once of escaped eye, Baudelaire creates a new loving common place. In this sonnet, the spatiotemporal frame, the actors, the meeting and the love carry the imprint of the modernity until become the emblem. Other poets will take back on the mode of simulation or of variation the baudelerian model, and notably the figure of the passer-by. The poem of the first meeting becomes then the place of the celebration of a new feminine figure but especially of the lyric news which is nothing at least than an erotic of dividing distance.

The present diploma work describes the early development of digital narrative on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia in the 80's and at the beginning of the 90's of the 20th century. In that period, the text adventure game production and use were influenced by the socio-cultural and economic environment in the east-European Communist bloc, and by its following transformation into a democratic system with market economy. That brought about unique approaches to the computer game development and playing, and it also led to a formation of a cultural phenomenon of digital text games connected with the context of that time. The text deals with a brief historic development of digital game playing in the world, and a general situation in the information technologies on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia including direct participants' selected opinions. Within the framework of the present work, basic theoretical approaches have been presented, examining the adventure games genre, and especially their narrative part and the principles of intertextuality. The latter have been described using the examples of the respective Czechoslovak game production.

Autofiction has been the subject of much critical investigation in France, yet little of this theory extends to contemporary texts. Furthermore, autofictional theory has, until now, neglected the study of ludic performance – an important feature within the genre –, and this thesis contributes to filling this gap in criticism. Through this analysis, I establish the genre's construction as well as the constitution of the autobiographical persona in the autofictional texts of four authors. I argue that in order for autofiction to be considered as a genre, ludic strategies and autofictional personae are critical factors in the genre's construction. I build on previous scholarship of autofiction before discussing the performance of autobiographical personae producing an autofictional body in the works of four contemporary French writers: Catherine Cusset, Philippe Vilain, Chloé Delaume and Éric Chevillard. Each author is analysed in a dedicated chapter exploring their autofictional œuvres, yielding three key trends. These are: the proliferation of intertextual references, ludic representations of the genre, and the creation of an autofictional body by the reader through autofictional personae. In each chapter I examine the construction of these personae, revealing a separation between selfhood constructed in language and questions of the body, both of the autofictional personae as well as characters within the text. Other characters within the texts expose complex constructions of gender that range from a rejection of male characters to the homogenisation of female characters reduced to stereotypes. Depictions of the intimate sphere within autofiction, including relationships and gendered constructs, are analysed in order to situate autofiction as a genre. Through the discussion of autofictional personae pivotal in this conception of autofiction, this thesis posits that representations of the body – within and beyond language – are the key to understanding autofictional performances.