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The main objective of this thesis is to study the representation of the mother-daughter relationship in Rue Deschambault and La Route dAltamont, works of Gabrielle Roy. We will present, initially, an overview of the dominant ideological representation of women in the French-Canadian novel before 1945 and then study the manner in which Roy recounts and interprets the experiences of the women of her time. Thus, we will be led to indicate how the representation of Roys female figures reflects a certain transformation of the role of women in French-Canadian literature and society. In the first chapter we will analyze certain aspects of Roys first-person narrative. We will pay particular attention to aspects of the "autobiographical imagination," the representation of the maternal figure and the mother-daughter relationship, and the notion of being part of a "female genealogy". </p> In the second chapter we will reveal how the mother-daughter relationship contains a patriarchal message which encourages the daughter to embrace a certain role within her family. Moreover, we will study the process of awakening which brings the daughter as Roy constructs her to a desire for demarcation and emancipation from the maternal figure.</p>In the final chapter we will study the themes of travel, the mother, and writing in the novels we have been studying. These topics are studied in order to highlight how the themes of travel and writing are related to the theme of the desire to both draw closer to and move away from the mother. They highlight the daughters quest for space and identity of her own through expanding her horizons and affirming the legitimacy of her own imagination and creative processes.</p>We will conclude by affirming that Roy offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the maternal figure and mother-daughter relationships in French-Canadian literature.

The main objective of this thesis is to study the representation of the mother-daughter relationship in Rue Deschambault and La Route dAltamont, works of Gabrielle Roy. We will present, initially, an overview of the dominant ideological representation of women in the French-Canadian novel before 1945 and then study the manner in which Roy recounts and interprets the experiences of the women of her time. Thus, we will be led to indicate how the representation of Roys female figures reflects a certain transformation of the role of women in French-Canadian literature and society. In the first chapter we will analyze certain aspects of Roys first-person narrative. We will pay particular attention to aspects of the "autobiographical imagination," the representation of the maternal figure and the mother-daughter relationship, and the notion of being part of a "female genealogy". </p> In the second chapter we will reveal how the mother-daughter relationship contains a patriarchal message which encourages the daughter to embrace a certain role within her family. Moreover, we will study the process of awakening which brings the daughter as Roy constructs her to a desire for demarcation and emancipation from the maternal figure.</p>In the final chapter we will study the themes of travel, the mother, and writing in the novels we have been studying. These topics are studied in order to highlight how the themes of travel and writing are related to the theme of the desire to both draw closer to and move away from the mother. They highlight the daughters quest for space and identity of her own through expanding her horizons and affirming the legitimacy of her own imagination and creative processes.</p>We will conclude by affirming that Roy offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the maternal figure and mother-daughter relationships in French-Canadian literature.

Although Gabrielle Roy worked sporadically on La Saga d'Eveline between 1945 and 1965, she never finished the novel and it remains unpublished to this day. All that remain of the novel are a few manuscripts totalling some thousand pages conserved in her personal archives at the National Library of Canada. The manuscripts contain several versions of a story based on an episode taken from the history of the maternal side of Roy's family: the family's migration from Quebec to Manitoba at the end of the XIXth century. It revolves around Eveline, a character who already appears in the published works and who was essentially inspired by the author's mother, Melina Landry. This novel not only adds a new episode to the fictionalized story of the family, it reveals lesser known aspects of Gabrielle Roy's writing and thinking, notably her thoughts on the feminine condition. This thesis consists of a critical edition of two of the six versions we have identified. A fairly complete story, which includes the latest and the most perfected texts, is thus obtained. The text is annotated and accompanied by a section entitled "Reecritures et notes critiques" [Rewritings and critical notes]. A three-part essay presenting the novel ("Presentation de La Saga d' Eveline") precedes it. In the first part, "Situation de La Saga d'Eveline", after giving a general outline of the projected work, we discuss problems in dating raised by the manuscripts, establish links between La Saga d' Eveline and the published works, and suggest a few possible areas of further research. The next part, "Les manuscrits de La Saga d'Eveline", includes a presentation of the material as well as the textual aspects of the manuscripts, some hypotheses regarding dates, a proposal on how the manuscripts should be classified and a discussion of the unfinished character of the work. Finally, in "Edition de La Saga d'Eveline", we examine the methodological issues involved in editing an unfinished and unpublished novel

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / The question --- whether a biological concept, such as evolution, can have a profound effect in such a remote field of study as professional philosophy --- must begin with a discussion of what evolution means to biologists, and did mean at the time the philosopher in question was formulating his philosophy. The names of Lamarck, Darwin, and DeVries stand for three theories of the method of evolution, current at the time Sellars was formulating his metaphysics; and there was no acceptable way of choosing among them. However, all were agreed that evolution had occurred and by evolution they meant a continuous chain of descent accompanied by modification of inheritance until new species had been formed. Since Sellars does, as most philosophers do, have his own vocabulary of special terms, the need of a glossary is indicated, to contain terms as: thing, existent, datum, content, perception, category, thinghood, intuit, knowledge, object, correspond, physical, law, connection, continuity, structure, function, organism, system, emergence, time, explanation, history, and cumulation. The thorough explanation of these terms acts to describe, to a considerable extent, Sellars' philosophy. However, another separate chapter is necessary to give an adequate picture of Sellars' metaphysics, epistemology, unification of the sciences, approach to the mind-body problem, emphasis on evolution, and rejection of God. [TRUNCATED]

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L'engagement de Gabrielle Roy n'ayant pas toujours été considéré comme allant de soi, ce mémoire se veut en quelque sorte une mise au point sur la question. En suivant la progression de deux tendances significatives qui traversent l'œuvre de la romancière, soit la subjectivation de la voix et la nuance du discours, notre recherche vise à mieux comprendre le rapport complexe que l'écrivaine entretient dans ses livres avec les enjeux de domination et à retracer, à même l'œuvre, l'évolution de son engagement pour la justice sociale. Notre hypothèse veut qu'il y ait non seulement un processus de nuance du discours au fil de la carrière romanesque de Gabrielle Roy, mais que celui-ci est indissociable du phénomène de subjectivation de la voix qui se trace en parallèle et que c'est précisément là, dans cette tension réconciliée par l'écriture, que se trouve le véritable engagement régien pour la cause des groupes dominés. Pour apporter des éléments de réponse à cette hypothèse, nous posons notre regard sur trois « chapitres » de la carrière romanesque de Gabrielle Roy (Bonheur d'occasion [1945], Rue Deschambault [1955] et La détresse et l'enchantement, [1984]) pour ainsi retracer l'évolution des stratégies narratives et stylistiques permettant à l'écrivaine de protéger son intégrité tout en forgeant un plaidoyer implicite en faveur de l'égalité et de l'inclusion.