Cette thèse étudie un corpus de quinze romans italiens pour jeunes lecteurs, qui ont été publiés entre1900 et 1925 et racontent un voyage fantastique. Il s'agit aussi bien d'ouvrages qui s'adressent aux enfants que d'oeuvres plus prolixes, dont les destinataires pourraient être des adolescents. Pour l'analyse de ce corpus, nous avons associé une approche narratologique à une approche sociologique. Premièrement, nous avons reconstitué la manière d'envisager le jeune âge dans la culture italienne entre le XIXe et le XXe siècles, et nous avons abordé la question de l'influence des éducateurs et du marché éditorial sur le livre pour enfants. Deuxièmement, nous avons étudié la présence du thème du voyage dans la littérature de jeunesse, ainsi que les contenus idéologiques et la dimension littéraire de nos quinze textes. L'union de ces deux approches nous a permis de comprendre le fonctionnement narratif des oeuvres, tout en les replaçant dans le contexte de leur première diffusion. / This thesis studies fifteen Italian novels for young readers, published between 1900 and 1925, and narrating fantasy journeys. Some of these works were addressed to children and others, given their prolix content, could have been addressed more to teenagers. In our analysis of these works, we have associated a narratological approach to a sociological approach. First, we have reconstructed how the Italian culture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries considered youthfulness, and additionally, we took into consideration the influence of the educators and the editorial markets of that time on children’s literature. Secondly, we studied the presence of the theme of voyage in this type of literature, the ideological contents and the literal dimension of our fifteen texts. The combination of these approaches allowed us to understand the narrative functioning of those works, while placing them in their first historical context upon publication.

This thesis documents a personal journey that asks the reader to consider the volatility of genres and their use value as a hierarchy and/or in the Academy. It places itself in the limitary disciplines of cultural studies, gender studies and fiction, and offers a map of a journey across disciplines. The thesis (w)rites against the grain of the patriarchal Order, and the author articulates gender as a variable in knowledge making and takes an experimental approach to the collection and analysis of data through reading and writing strategies. The use of the bracket is to make a ritual of (w)riting and a contingency of (k)now-ing. The thesis comes in three parts, all of which are interrelated. Parts one and two contain collections of the author's short stories and poetry and Part three is comprised of her correspondence. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This dissertation describes my recovery of the life and writing of a relatively unknown late nineteenth-century Canadian woman writer. In the fall of 1888, Lily Lewis, a young journalist from Montreal, embarked upon a journey around the world in the company of another young woman, Sara Jeannette Duncan. Duncan has since been increasingly recognized for both her journalism and her fiction and Lewis has been almost entirely forgotten. I have recovered some of Lewis's work subsequent to the tour with Duncan, identified some earlier work not previously attributed to her, and become acquainted with a surviving relative, and in my dissertation I examine Lily Lewis [Rood]'s life and texts from the theoretical perspective of life writing. I find Marlene Kadar's theory of "life writing as critical practice" as she explains it in her introductory chapter to Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice especially enabling for this project. The process of recovering early writers, Kadar insists, must includean exploration of precisely how they became lost, and must not exclude the contexts of the reader and critic. To explicate fully my own critical contexts, I summarize theories of life writing by several Canadian scholars, including Kadar. I include, as well, outlines of some pertinent work on travel writing, and a brief overview of the new historicist critical 'milieu ' in which my study situates itself. In an attempt to understand the "forgetting" (Kadar 10) that has almost effaced Lily Lewis from Canadian literary history, I examine circumstances today, in Lewis's time, and in the time between that have contributed to her erasure. In an attempt to reclaim for Lily Lewis a place among Canadian women writers of her time, I read and analyse her work contextually and intertextually in conjunction with writing by several of her contemporaries, notably Duncan, and, to a lesser extent, the Canadian journalist, travel writier, and novelist, Alice Jones. I focus upon evidence that supports my contention that a contributor to the Toronto paper The Week, previously known only as "L. L.," was Lily Lewis. I look at Lily Lewis Rood's complex involvement in cultural and literary stereotypes, and I discuss her participation in discourses about the New Woman in both Canadian and international contexts. I hope with this work to contribute to our knowledge of Canada's literary past and also, by encouraging a careful examination of our current critical values and practices, to contribute to Canadian literary scholarship and to the theorizing of life writing.

Texte remanié de: Proefschrift--Letteren--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 309-330. Index.

Dissertation--Kunstgeschichte--Siegen, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. 134-145.

Dissertation--Universität Göttingen, 2004. / Bibliogr. p. 293-301.

Thèse d'exercice : Médecine. Médecine générale : Paris 12 : 2007. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. 63 f. : ill. Bibliogr. f. 49-56.

Thèses (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), 1998. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 20 juin 2006). Publié aussi en version papier.

Thèse 3e cycle--Histoire--Rouen, 1980. / N° spécial des :". Cahiers d'histoire de l'enseignement ". 1980. Bibliogr. p. 285-289.

Diss.--Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät--Salzburg, 1983. / Bibliogr. pp. 626-638.