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L'échec de la littérature québécoise au XIXe siècle : Les Anciens Canadiens comme révélateur de la problématique littéraire québécoise de l'époque

This thesis, L'Echec de la litterature quebecoise au XIXe siecle, is focused on the idea that literature was impossible as such in the 19th Century French Quebec. Les Anciens Canadiens serves as a revealer for this issue. The thesis first describes the socio-historical, ideological and literary backgrounds around this novel written by a seignorial class member. So we will see this seignorial class has solidly constituted itself only after the New France transfer to Great Britain. The thesis explains the ideological readjustment after 1837-38 in the French Canadian Society and has an interest in the antagonistic characters of the 19th Century Quebec literary contents: historial and rural novels; patriotic and personal poetry. Next the thesis examines how the Anciens Canadiens text is working, insisting on the logic and the contradictions of this working. Then the thesis explains how it arrived that Les Anciens Canadiens, commanded by a seigniorial ideology, was well received by petit-bourgeois readers. A light is thrown on the possibilities of realism of this novel and the reasons why they have not materialized. Finally, we try to show the contradictions in the petite-bourgeoisie socio-historical situation that have prevented the birth of true literature.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68709
Date January 1982
CreatorsPlante, Jean-René.
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageFrench
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageDoctor of Philosophy (Département de langue et littérature françaises.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: 000159070, proquestno: AAINK64648, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.

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