The presence or absence of food in the novels of Bernanos lie within a highly meaningful system of values and images. From a list of references to food, we will define the nature and role of food in Bernanos' novels. Then we shall try to bring out the symbolic system which organizes the various elements of this theme in one coherent whole. Thus we will see that food, scarce in this work, is always associated with evil, or tends to disappear in a system of images related to sin. As for food acceptable in the eyes of Bernanos, it also eventually loses its material quality by becoming metaphors of the spiritual world.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.60564 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Wong Chong, Stephen |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001255477, proquestno: AAIMM72154, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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