This master's thesis in creative work is divided in two parts: a compilation of novels and a critical study. The creative work is entitled "Les lits clos". It is a compilation of nine novels imprint with black humor. This creative work tends to demonstrate that daily routine is a source of black humor and that reality is nothing but the perception that everyone makes of it. / "Les lits clos" will be preceded by a critical study which intends to explain what is black humor by following Andre Breton, founder of that term. First of all we will discuss of Jacques Vache who, in his correspondence with Andre Breton, was interested to what he called "Umour". Then we will see how Breton, using Freud's theory, has refined objective humor created by Hegel. Black humor is at first a search for freedom, moreover the desire to overcome death. Black humor is nourished by the imagination to recover the origin of image. The black humorist lies between the subjective and the objective and tends to stay in balance within each other. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.61249 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Trébaol, Gaëlle |
| 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: 000966483, proquestno: AAIMM75858, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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