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Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer (1985) by Dany Laferriere and L’art du maquillage (1997) by Sergio Kokis, are two novels that are part of what is known as migrant literature in Quebec. Both explore the question of identity and alterity, one from a racial perspective and the other, from an individual and artistic one. If, on the one hand, the presence of otherness within identity refers to the importance of the other for the subject within the diegesis of the novels, on the other hand, it also represents the trace of a discursive other in the writing of the two novels. Hence, this thesis explores the importance of the other through a study of intermedial references to four paintings that prove to be significant for a better understanding of both novels. In Laferrière’s novel, the subject objectifies the other through his perception and his literary creation, and through this process, he objectifies himself. In Kokis’s novel, not only does the subject’s quest to reach the real Other end in failure, but by representing the other in art, he will eventually change the other’s identity. Acting as a theoretical framework for this analysis are Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic studies on the relationship between the subject and the other, and Irina O. Rajesky’s and Peter Wagner’s respective theoretical texts on intermediality, with the help of which the links between the paintings and the themes at play in the novels are explored. / Thesis (Master, French) -- Queen's University, 2010-09-29 17:17:50.692

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The limited attention paid by architectural historians to the influence of continental European migrant architects on Australian architecture has been noted in recent architecture literature. This study offers a close analysis of the life and work of Canberra architect Enrico Taglietti, who migrated to Australia from Italy in 1955. His work demonstrates a 'highly personal style' offering more depth and playfulness of form and content than the work of his contemporaries. Taglietti designed a broad range of private and public buildings in Canberra, his adopted 'invisible city', including Dickson District Library, Giralang Primary School and the War Memorial Repository, and received in 2007 the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Gold Medal. Yet, despite this success his work has received limited acknowledgment from Australian architectural historians. who show a persistent difficulty with integrating Taglietti's architectural language into prevailing architectural schema. This study adopts an integrated methodology offered by Manfredo Tafuri's 'operative criticism', micro-history and oral history to retrace the origin of Taglietti's 'idiosyncratic design', arguing that an understanding of Taglietti's formative experiences, his habitus (in the words of Pierre Bourdieu), can shed light on his architectural language. Taglietti inherited Bruno Zevi's, Carlo De Carli's and Frank L10yd Wright's belief in the architectural continuum space as the fundamental expression of the modernist period, Pier Luigi Nervi's notion of arte del costruire as the combination of technical as well as artistic knowledge, and the sense of craft as learnt from contact with the Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala at the 1954 Milan Triennale. With an extraordinary attachment to Canberra, Taglietti developed an architectural language which responds to place, with its strong formalist extemal volumes juxtaposed to an idiosyncratic complex internal spatial arrangement. In questioning whether Taglietti shared common intellectual ground with Australian architects, and whether this common ground was Zevi's and Wright's view of architecture and urban design. this study argues that lan McKay (b.1932) is the Australian architect who shares common aspects with Taglietti, including ideas on the role of the architect as an urbanist.

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