Robert Lepage’s play The Dragons’ Trilogy stretches across space and time, travelling through three generations and three major Canadian cities, each section named for a dragon in the Chinese game Mahjong. The Blue Dragon continues the story of Pierre Lamontagne twenty years later, and in doing so, rounds out and completes the cycle of the three Dragons of The Dragons’ Trilogy. This thesis studies the evolution of Lepage’s treatment of the Other and the Self in The Dragons’ Trilogy and The Blue Dragon. Grouping these two plays together should be a foregone conclusion, because of the titles of each section and the character of Pierre Lamontagne, who appears in both plays, but it has in fact been discussed very little. This thesis thus examines the transformation of characters such as Pierre, who, from one play to the other, and through language and space, find the Other in the Self. To address this issue, the second chapter explores the question of plurilingualism, in order to show how the plurality of languages in the plays and among the characters promotes the ideal of communication and communion with the Other. In the third chapter, the thesis examines the theatrical space of the two plays; from the closed-off city of Québec during the 1930s in The Green Dragon to Pierre Lamontagne’s intimate and modern loft in The Blue Dragon, the imagined worlds perfectly mirror the interior journeys of the characters. Finally, the last chapter, which studies the characters, focuses on the question of stereotypes, the quests for identity, and the role artistic creation plays within these quests. Ultimately, this thesis demonstrates that in The Dragons’ Trilogy and The Blue Dragon, although Otherness may at first appear to be the opposite of Self, it is in fact found within identity. / Thesis (Master, French) -- Queen's University, 2012-12-20 17:04:10.317

Les propos de cette thèse princeps s’inscrivent dans une démarche qui consiste à rétablir dans sa fonction seconde, en sciences humaines et sociales, l’approche dite cartésienne comme étant la conséquence cartographique d’une approche préliminaire trifonctionnelle (trikãlienne) telle que l’a mise au jour le philologue Georges Dumézil. Le tout permettant de faire entrer les sciences de l’information et des communications dans une dimension constructale quelques soient les problématiques soulevées. La théorie constructale des communications est phénoménologique et fait lien avec la loi constructale mise au jour par Adrian Bejan.La loi de Constructal, telle qu’elle a été mise au jour par Adrian Bejan, professeur et inventeur de la théorie constructale des formes et de leurs évolutions dans la nature, est celle qui régit le phénomène universel de l’évolution de la production et de l'évolution des configurations (formes, structures, rythmes) des systèmes animés, inanimés autant qu’humains. Au niveau global, la loi de Constructale des communications, sur modèle trifonctionnel de Patrick Kalason, explique la topographie que prennent les formes communicationnelles (richesse et complexité).Dans cette thèse, Patrick Kalason, découvreur de la théorie constructale des communications sur fondements systémiques trifonctionnels, propose des nouvelles clefs d’accès à la compréhension des formes issues de la sociodynamique telles que les pratiques religieuses, les processus de négociation, la pédagogie et les mécanismes sémiologiques qui sous-tendent les changements sociétaux. / The comments of this princeps thesis in communication join a step which consists in restoring in human and social sciences the called “cartesian approach” in his second function as being the cartographic consequence of a preliminary approach trifunctional (trikãlian model) such as brought the one to light by the philologist Georges Dumezil . Allowing the whole to integrate into constructal dimension of the information and the communication sciences whatever the issues raised.The Constructal Law, such as brought to light by Adrian Bejan, professor and proponent of the constructal theory of design and evolution in nature, governs the universal phenomenon of generation and evolution of design (shape, structure, rhythm) in animate, inanimate and human systems. At the global level, the Constructal Law of communication, with a triadic model, accounts for the topography and design of human communication (wealth & complexity). In this thesis, Patrick Kalason, proponent of a constructal and trifunctional systematic approach in communications, proposes new keys to understand the emergency of sociodynamic forms such as religious practices, negotiation processes, pedagogy, and communication (semiology) mechanisms underlying social changes.

Ce projet de thèse en création littéraire, divisé en trois parties, vise à poursuivre dans la veine entomologique et littéraire présente dans L’Insecte, de l’historien Jules Michelet, et dans La Vie des Abeilles, La Vie des Fourmis et La Vie des Termites, du poète symboliste Maurice Maeterlinck. Dans un premier temps, nous analyserons la teneur du discours scientifique de ces deux écrivains reconnus par l’institution littéraire en adoptant une approche épistémocritique. Nous chercherons à comprendre comment les connaissances entomologiques au sujet de l’abeille, de la fourmi et du termite servent les textes de notre corpus et à quel point elles diffèrent d’un écrivain à l’autre. Nous examinerons également leur utilisation des références scientifiques, de la terminologie, des figures et des représentations abstraites afin de mieux nous outiller pour la création. Dans un deuxième temps, nous présenterons la trilogie de nouvelles Antennes qui traite des mêmes connaissances entomologiques que Michelet et Maeterlinck, mais d’une façon imagée et à une échelle différente, car nous y transposons les qualités animales aux humains. L’ensemble est construit en fonction de la hiérarchie établie par Maeterlinck au sujet des espèces qu’il a étudiées pour déterminer si cet ordre tient toujours, un siècle plus tard. Nous retrouvons ainsi les qualités de l’indestructible fourmi (L’Organe) qui, par son altruisme, serait supérieure à l’abeille asservie et à la santé fragile (L’Extrudeuse), qui elle-même serait supérieure à l’impitoyable termite (La Termitière). En changeant les proportions et les acteurs, nous expérimentons avec la fiction pour tenter de comprendre ce que signifient la nature, l’intelligence, l’altruisme et la mort pour l’être humain au XXIe siècle. Dans la dernière partie, forte de notre analyse et de notre création, nous aborderons dans L’Excès le comportement de l’espèce humaine et la place qu’elle se croit en droit d’occuper au sein de la nature.

This thesis is concerned with the depiction of working-class Dublin in Roddy Doyle's first three novels, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, known as The Barrytown Trilogy. The first part of the thesis provides a short overview of Doyle's early work in the context of modern Irish fiction with a focus on working-class protagonists and outlines Ireland's and specifically Dublin's cultural and economic background in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The second part is based on a comparative analysis of the three books in which the author celebrates everyday life in Barrytown, a fictitious neighbourhood in the north of Dublin, through the eyes of a typical working-class family. One section is also dedicated to the language of the trilogy used as a means of achieving greater authenticity. KEYWORDS Roddy Doyle, The Barrytown Trilogy, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, Irish literature, Dublin, working class, family, 1980s, 1990s

IN ENGLISH The primary concern of this thesis is to explore the instances of incorporation of media-specific elements extracted and translated from radio and cinema into Samuel Beckett's late prose. The analysis of the texts forming Beckett's Nohow On trilogy is based on the investigation of the two modes of perception - the aural and the visual - and is realised through the close reading of Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Wostward Ho in the context of media and film theory and practice. The chief premise is that the formal translations among the print and non-print media in Beckett's work are conditioned by the author's interest in, and theoretical and practical familiarity with, radio, television, and cinematography. The discussion is thus supported by biographical and bibliographical framework, and Beckett's familiarity with the specificities of broadcast media and cinema is considered in their direct relation to the progressive 'technologisation' of his fiction of the 1980s. The thesis outlines the origins and transformations of the motif of voice as one of Beckett's chief fictional concerns, and explores the texts' practical and notional borrowings from the field of cinematography to elucidate the way in which they are designed to simulate perceptual experiences. In doing so, the individual...

The thesis named "Sense of Life in the Work of Karel Čapek" treats the problems of raison- d'etre of life seen by Karel Čapek. At first this thesis is preoccupied by Čapek's personality and character of his era. Karel Čapek is characterized as an author in whose works were projected his philosophical views influenced mainly by pragmatism. The thesis analyses Čapek's works treating issues of sense of life. Particularly these are two proses by Čapek "Obyčejný život" (Common Life) and "Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna "(The Life and Work of Composer Foltýn). These two novels are at first analyzed separately and then compared.

This diploma thesis focuses on the most popular representative of the so-called "polar marseillais", which is Jean-Claude Izzo. The theoretical part briefly describes the development of the detective genre and the place of the detective novel in the framework of French literary production. It also deals with the position of the detective novel in the context of Czech literature and publishing. Secondly, Jean-Claude Izzo and his works will be presented in detail. Based on the information already presented, it will be possible to characterize the place of this author in connection to the French literary scene and to describe his function in the Czech environment. The main part of the work will be devoted to the translatological analysis and the critique of two Czech translations of Izzo's novels Totální chaos and Chourmo that together with Solea belong to his so-called 'Marseilles trilogy'.

This diploma thesis approaches the life story of one of the very important Czech historians postwar historiography, which has so far been overlooked, however. The work does not try to give information only about the life and works of Joseph Novotny, but classifies the historian in the context of time, focusing on his views and attitudes, which supported the communist ideology of the 60th of the 20 century, which was a great supporter. The author in creating the present study was based primarily on personal collection of Josef Novotný, which is stored in the Archives of the National Museum in Prague, Josef Novotny's work itself, the literature on the history of the First Republic, Second Republic and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, not least in the literature used to history of the historiography of the late 20th century. The work is divided into five chapters. The first chapter gives information about the life of Joseph Novotny. From second to fifth chapter are portrayed his personal attitudes and opinions of the historical situation until 30 years until the early 40th of the 20 century. About Josef Novotny are not yet issued any publication that would cover his life and work. Even literature is silent about him most. Therefore, the author sees the biggest benefit is that the present study provided information about the historian, who has been neglected Czech historiography, and perhaps opened a new research topic that can be developed further historians.

Le présent travail se consacre à l’étude de la trilogie de l’écrivain espagnol Rafael Chirbes (1949-2015), constitué de La larga marcha, La caída de Madrid et Los viejos amigos, et à travers laquelle l’auteur retrace l’histoire récente de l’Espagne, depuis la guerre civile jusqu’au retour d’un régime démocratique, en passant par le franquisme. L’étude narrative de chacun des trois romans couplée à une approche collective permettra d’observer comment l’histoire des personnages finit par retracer celle de l’Espagne et celle de la génération désenchantée de l’auteur lui-même. / This work is dedicated to the study of the trilogy of the Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes (1949-2015), made uo of the Larga marcha, La caída de Madrid and Los viejos amigos, and through which the author recounts the recent history of Spain, since the civil war until the return of a democratic regime, via the Francoism period. The narrative study of each novels coupled with a collective approach will allow us to observe how the story of the characters ends up recounting Spain’s History as well as the story of the author’s disillusioned generation.

Le terme désœuvrement apparaît comme une des grandes notions qui peuplent la critique littéraire du 20ème siècle. Il marque la mise en mouvement de l'absence de l’œuvre dans laquelle l'écriture tend vers l'espace où rien ne peut être fait. La Trilogie romanesque de Beckett et les romans de Blanchot se croisent dans cet espace du désœuvrement. Les deux écrivains tentent de faire opérer la fin de la littérature en cherchant une nouvelle forme qui réalise le chaos. Dans leur œuvre, le temps, l'espace, la narration et le langage sont mis en redéfinition en abandonnant tous leurs caractères traditionnels. L’œuvre s'approche donc du fragmentaire. / The term worklessness became one of the main concepts in the literary criticism of the 20th century. It marked the absence of the work on the way to a literary space where nothing can be done. Both Beckett and Blanchot tried to put an end to literature by creating a new form that could express the chaos. In theirs novels, time, space, narration and language no longer remain their traditional characteristics. The works of the two authors are close to what we call fragmented novel.