The present thesis gathers seven original short stories joined, with one exception, by their shared subscription to the road motif and the cultural references linked to it. The creative collection is followed by an attempt of definition of the road novel as a North-American, Twentieth-century genre that has inherited literary basics of the Bildungsroman, the picaresque and travel literature, and which is characterized by the hero's personal and collective quest for identity, under the influence of the American myth. On the one hand, this work focuses on the sacred nature of the road and, on the other hand, regarding the Quebecois road novel, the influence of americanity and the sedentary-nomad dichotomy in the hero's search.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.21213 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Godin, Marc Antoine. |
| Contributors | Rivard, Yvon (advisor), Doiron, Normand (advisor) |
| 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: 001659835, proquestno: MQ50516, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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