NCube/papyrus huggingface dataset:
Affects, médias, terrorisme

The main objective of this dissertation will be to analyze the audience’s affect, who is today, witnessing the dread and terrorism, always shown on the internet, followed by the other mediums (TV channels, newspapers, cinema). To carry out this study, it will be necessary to analyze the terrorist’s video’s broadcast methods of all kind within these collective (internet propaganda, amateur, televisual) and therefore explain how they spread through this privative universe and rule the audience’s life (affect). From this study, the discussion will close in on the video itself, and how it has to be seen. We will meticulously analyze the image, sound and language. The creation consists on a mini-series which will only include the pilot. It will have a politically motivated meaning and will take a stance on our actual society facing extremism and terrorism, its part in it and the consequences of its actions. All of it will be seen from the affect of a character’s network, who will evolve around the same plot. Here is the pitch: “Now that a European country’s government has gone far right, a group of artists, reporters, politics and citizens will gather up to create an underground resistance in order to unmask the real actions on these new leaders.”

Keyphrases: Daech, Terror, Terrorism, Medias, Emotion, Algorithm, Propaganda, Daesh
La terreur de Fatal Frame : entre sacrifice et mort

This thesis proposes an analysis of the terror experience within the Fatal Frame franchise, more specificly in Fatal Frame III : The Tormented (TECMO, 2005). First of all, we situate the game within the survival terror genre and examine the emotions it generates, such as fear and terror. We employ an approach based on the player's emotions in relation to the image, sound and gameplay. Then we dress a portrait of the experience by applying the scare tactics underlined by LUDOV research group and we analyse the game elements that create the seeked emotions. We then consider the link between the player and the available offensive ressources. Secondly, we observe the game environment in its construction and presentation. To better understand its influences on the player's emotions, we break down the plot and refer ourselves to urban legends and the shintoïst religion. Finally, we develop on the figure of the ghost and its horrific representation and, mostly, the way the player can act towards this threat. The thematic of the haunting is then more closely examined. We first look at transmediatic haunting. Then, we approach transvideoludic haunting while considering the links between the games of the franchise.

Keyphrases: Fatal Frame, Sacrifice, Video game, Fear, Terror, Haunting, Ritual
Le triptyque oublié de Jan de Beer au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

This M.A. thesis treats the triptych of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1510-1530) by Jan de Beer (1475-1538), in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MBAM) since 1975. The project is twofold, and engages on one hand provenance studies, and secondly iconography. First the provenance of the triptych is examined, and brings to light significant documents detailing of the artwork’s journey in the tumultuous twentieth century. While this Antwerp-mannerist triptych appears on page nine on the list of objects “whose history is incomplete between 1933 and 1945,” recently published by the MBAM, our research now confirms the passage of the work, in 1934, in the Galgoz castle of the Erdődys, an aristocratic family known throughout Hungary, Slovakia, and Croatia. A new document regarding the sales contract signed by Vilmos Erdődy (1887-1959) and Theodor Fischer on December 5th, 1934 in Vienna has also come been found, as well as the 1937 auction catalogue documenting its sale. Attention is therefore paid to the historical, political and economic contexts experienced by the Erdődy family before the turning point in 1934. A thorough review of the SAP Panel’s legislation and recommendations will enlighten us regarding the conditions and possibilities of a forced sale. Secondly, the triptych’s iconography is examined in great detail, following a theoretical framework developed by Erwin Panofsky. Amidst several other popular texts of the time, the Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden can be shown to have fundamentally influenced the imagery of the Adoration of the Shepherds. However, Jan de Beer infuses his altarpiece with a second layer of meaning, what Panofsky would call its iconology, that of the blindness of humanity in the face of divine light. The deployment of this secondary discourse is by means of hidden symbolism, which, by introducing itself stealthily, testifies on the one hand to the intimate desire for a direct relationship with God some years before the Council of Trent, but also of the ideas central to a humanist culture: a spiritual reflection on one’s own salvation.

Keyphrases: Jan de Beer, Provenance, Erdődy family, Galgoz castle, Iconography, Saint Brigitte of Sweden, Annunciation, Adoration of the Shepherds, Flight into Egypt
«Prendre en considération l’état du Pays» : 1834, la mobilisation patriote dans le district de Montréal

In Canada, the first political system with popular representation was established in the late 18th century. In the former colony of New France, a population that had never known democracy before familiarized itself with civic life in less than 50 years. This thesis focuses on one case of popular mobilization on the eve of the Rebellions of 1837-1838. It specifically seeks to understand the practices established in rural areas of the district of Montreal to channel popular support for the Parti patriote. This angle allows us to emphasize the increased participation of Canadiens in the tense period following the filing of the 92 Resolutions in 1834. This thesis proposes to show the link between political mobilization and practices emanating from the masses. The humble ambition of this thesis is, therefore, to show the influence of the peasant population of Lower Canada in the political culture of the Patriotes and therefore underline the practices that individuals adopted in their democratic learning process.

Keyphrases: Parti patriote, histoire rurale, political mobilization, Patriote party, rural history, Lower Canada, comity, petition
L'application du traité de Troyes, 21 mai 1420 : au-delà de l'échec, dix années de tentatives et d'efforts au royaume de France

The terms of the peace ratified by Charles VI and Henry V in Troyes in May 1420 are pretty clear and seem easy to apply : the dauphin Charles, sole heir of king Charles VI, is disinheritaded; Henry V, by wedding the daughter of the king of France, Catherine, becomes the new legitimate heir of Charles VI and, when the latter is to die, will reign over France and England without, however, unifying the two kingdoms;  the treaty of Troyes also seals the alliance between Burgundy, England and the northern half of France in the war against the armagnac party of the dauphin Charles which controls the southern part of France, the kingdom of Bourges.  Yet, when the peace ceremony of the cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul of Troyes is over, the theory of the treaty comes up against a completely different reality.  While the treaty plans a total adherence to the peace from the northern half of France and the politic death of the armagnac party and of the dauphin Charles, what occurs is quite the opposite : aresistance movements to the treaty itself and to the authority that it gives to Henry V as heir and regent of France arise from everywhere and the dauphin’s party, far from disapearing, holds fast against the « coalition » formed by England, France and Burgundy.  Last but not least comes  the untimely death of Henry V in August 1422 wich, once Charles VI follows him in death in the following October, leaves the kingdoms of Fance and England in the hands of a less than one year hold baby-king.  All those facts seem to imply a quick failure of the peace and the people in charge of applying it know it too well.  Nevertheless, the ten years following the ratification of the treaty and despite every difficulties against it are the withnesses to a genuine attempt to properly apply the peace of Troyes or, at least, of some of its clauses and elements that really can be putted into practice.

Keyphrases: XVe siècle, France, Charles VI, Charles VII, Serment, Confiscation, Don, Middle Ages, Peace, Hundred Years'War, XVthe century, Treaty of Troyes, Dual monarchy, Kingdom of Bourges, English France, French France, France, Charles VI, Charles VII, England, Henry V, Henry VI, John of Bedford, Burgundy, Philip the Good, Oath, Confiscation, Grant
L’interaction entre l’opinion publique et la diplomatie françaises au moment de la guerre d’Indépendance américaine

As early as the battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19th 1775, the American War of Independence holds the attention in France of both French diplomats as well as French public opinion. Amongst both groups, we find elements trying to favour and prepare an official French intervention in this war.  The aim of this thesis is therefore to study the interaction that took place then between public opinion and diplomacy. The first chapter studies how public opinion created the opportune conditions for Beaumarchais’ intervention to the French government and the impact of this intervention. As for the second chapter, it is interested in the arguments put forward by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – through its own newspaper, the Affaires de l’Angleterre et de l’Amérique – to convince and prepare public opinion to the intervention of France in the American War of Independence.

Keyphrases: France, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Diplomacy, Public opinion, American War of Independence, France, United States, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
La perception du boulangisme par la presse britannique

During the second half of the 1880s, French political life was marked by the emergence of Boulangism. This short-lived anti-establishment movement formed around General Boulanger gathered members of both the Left and the Right thanks to a program mainly summed up in the slogan «Dissolution, constituante, révision». By opposing itself to the parliamentary regime of the Moderate Republicans, Boulangism threatened the Third Republic and also aroused fears throughout Europe as it was apprehended that a victory from the «général Revanche» would lead, willingly or not, to a new European war.  This thesis’ aim is to increase the knowledge about the perception of Boulangism outside of France by analysing the content of four British newspapers (the Birmingham Daily Post, the Manchester Guardian, the Scotsman and the Times) which were chosen as to offer a geographical and political representation. The first two chapters tackle the perception of the impact of Boulangism on the European scene and the French political scene, while the last chapter covers the British press’ image of General Boulanger as an individual. What emerges from this analysis is a mostly negative perception of Boulangism.

Keyphrases: Perception, France, Boulangism, General Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, Press, Great Britain, Perception, France
Trajectoires et subjectivités italo-québécoises : le processus identitaire de la deuxième génération tel que conçu par Marco Micone, Mary Melfi et Paul Tana

This thesis focuses on the process of identity formation of second generation Italo-Quebeckers during the second wave of migration. More precisely, it looks at the creative works of Marco Micone, Mary Melfi and Paul Tana in order to reveal certain aspects of identity that are contained in works of fiction. It is through their vision that it is possible to identify several narrative frames that underscore different migratory and settlement trajectories in Quebec. These visions also expose the challenge of the (re)definition of self in a modern and bilingual society.   Instead of defining a “global” identity, this thesis is more interested in the elements that shape, affect, and above all, put pressure on the (re)identification of this generation. Drawing upon the sources employed in this thesis, three main themes emerge as modelling elements of identity for the second generation of Italo-Québécois: the relationship to language(s), gender relations, and intergenerational dynamics. All these themes are explored by each of the creators, although in different ways. This reinforces the idea that it is impossible to talk about a common Italian-Québécois identity and that it is preferable to talk about Italian-Quebecois subjectivities. Ultimately, it is a matter of disclosing how literary and creative works encourage us to rethink the establishment of Italians in Quebec, as well as their vision of Quebec society.

Keyphrases: Marco Micone, Mary Melfi, Paul Tana, italo-québécois, language, gender, italian immigration, subjectivity, identity, intergenerational, Italians from Quebec
Cinéma et modernité : le Festival international du film de Montréal de 1960 à 1967, du personnalisme au néonationalisme

In 1960, Fernand Cadieux and Pierre Juneau founded the first Montreal International Film Festival.  This great cultural adventure was held each August, up until what became its culminating and final year:  that of Expo ’67.  The history of the festival is intrinsically linked to culture, personalism, nationalism, and cinephillia, as well as the institutionalization and industrialization of cinema in Canada and Quebec during the 1950s and 60s.   Created under the political regime of Duplessis by former members of the Jeunesse étudiante catholique (Young Christian Students), who would almost all become federalists, it became apparent to me that the festival constituted a cultural-historic event conductive to expanding our understanding of the Catholic origins of the Quiet Revolution.  It also allowed for a finer understanding of the resynchronization of Quebec with modernity and the shock waves that emanated from this change, in particular, between leftists Quebec nationalists against federal Liberals.  Moreover, this paper allows us to discover the FIFM in its role as a Quebec cinemagraphic institution, as well as the community of actors and establishments that supported it and the object of their passion:  film.  The wager is therefore, to analyze in one hundred or so pages, the multiple facets of these issues:  the cinemagraphic, political, artistic and historic.

Keyphrases: Canada, Tradition, Institutions, Ciné-clubs, Culture, Festival, Film, Modernity, Quiet Revolution, Federalism, Nationalism, Universalism, Personalism, Social networks, Catholic, Societies, Ideology, Cinephilia
L'étude des dons de dîmes des chambellans de Tancarville à l'abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville, 1055-1316

Tithes were major taxes in the middle Ages that allowed the Church to structure itself. Still, they aren’t well known to historians, who mostly considered their economic and religious sides. What about the political games surrounding them? Lead by the curiosity to understand the medieval society and the desire to show new facets of the tithes, the author of this work analyzed thirty-one Norman charters written between the XIth and XIIIth centuries and produced for the most part by the lords of Tancarville, who were chamberlain of Normandy at the time. These charters are almost exclusively confirmations of tithe donations intended to Saint-Georges of Boscherville abbey, the necropolis of the chamberlains, which founded the place in the XIIth century. Their analysis, enlightened by two historiographical chapters about the tithes, the lords of Tancarville and they abbey Saint-Georges, showed that tithe donations have sometimes been used to assure the authority of the chamberlains over the monks or to make them accept clauses they wouldn’t have accepted otherwise. The analysis of these charters also allowed the discovery of a forgery. At the same time, this study adds up to previous ones by synthetizing information and giving a better comprehension of the wealth Saint-Georges of Boscherville might have had. It also confirms the important economic value of tithes at the time. Finally, it contains some unpublished charters and provides a brief analysis of Saint-Georges’ cartulary, written at the end of the XIIIth century and still unknown in historiography to this day. This opens up new paths for the scholars as it skims the content of a massive two hundred twenty-six folios’ document yet unpublished. Thus, if this study has left doors opened behind it, it still has enlightened some of them.

Keyphrases: Confirmations, ms. 1227 (Y 52), Tancarville, Abbey, Cartulary, Chamberlain of Normandy, Donations, Tithes, Normandy
Le développement du culte de Laurent à Rome aux IVe et Ve siècles

Constantine, with his seize of power in the early fourth century, has allowed the growth of a new form of devotion dedicated to the men and women tormented because of their beliefs in Christ and his Holy Father. Thereby, Lawrence, persecuted in 258 A.D. in Rome, has become the main figure of martyrdom in the Eternal City during the following century. This master's thesis aims at comprehending how the cult of Lawrence's unfolded and why it became the predominant martyr cult in the Roman capital.  By studying literary and epigraphic sources, especially Damasus, Ambrose, Augustine and Prudence, as well as the archaeological data on the construction of the churches dedicated to Lawrence, we came to the conclusion that the Roman martyr helped establish a Christian collective memory corresponding to the identity needs of the Urbs in this period characterized by the passage of a "pagan" empire to a Christian empire.  This creation of a collective memory is based on the sacralisation of the roman territory by the emperor Constantine and the roman bishop Damasus, on the introduction of new rituals and on the instrumentation of Lawrence and the cult of the saints by the ancient writers in their elaboration of a Christian identity for the city of Rome.

Keyphrases: Rome, Christianity, Rituals, Cult of the saints, Damasus, Identity, Hagiography, Lawrence, Martyrdom, Collective memory
Étude de la «régionalité» littéraire dans Arvida de Samuel Archibald, Atavismes de Raymond Bock et Il pleuvait des oiseaux de Jocelyne Saucier

Drawing from two collections and one novel published in 2011, Arvida by Samuel Archibald, Atavismes by Raymond Bock, and Il pleuvait des oiseaux by Jocelyne Saucier, this thesis explores the representation of regional territories in contemporary Quebec literature. It proposes that the territories described by these works of fiction are more imagination than reality, as Francis Langevin’s concept of “régionalité” suggests. The first chapter addresses the history of French and Quebecois regionalism, emphasizing how the examined corpus distinguishes itself and draws inspiration, in large part by way of intertextual allusions. This leads to an investigation of the intertextual universes of fictional works associated with the notion of the imaginary library. The second chapter explores questions of heritage, memory and filiation by way of textual analysis, revealing the challenges associated with the transmission and appropriation of memory. Lastly, the third chapter explores the complex relationship between the corpus and literary realism, situating universes both familiar and foreign on the referential plane. Thus results a form of detachment which takes shape as a thematic pattern of remoteness, borrowing Freudian elements of disquieting strangeness.

Keyphrases: Régionalité, Il pleuvait des oiseaux, Arvida, Atavismes, “Régionalité”, Il pleuvait des oiseaux, Arvida, Atavismes, Contemporary Quebec literature, Imagined territories, Referentiality, Heritage
L'acte poétique guillevicien : de la paroi-poème au poète-paroi

This thesis is about three works from the french poet Eugène Guillevic : Terraqué, Sphère, Paroi. Through an approach that combines enunciative, pragmatic and thematic analyzes, this paper will attempt to highlight the fundamental role played by the wall (paroi) in the emergence of the poetic subject, as well as in the poetics of the author.  The postulation is that the wall is at the heart of Guillevic’s poetics and that it largely modulates the experience that the subject makes of reality. The wall is in every boundary – space, time and self to oneself – and it is, paradoxically, thanks to this “refusal that says yes” that writing on the invisible and intangible wall becomes possible and allows the poet to “live in poetry”.

Keyphrases: Guillevic, Terraqué, Sphère, Paroi, Eugène Gullevic, poetics, wall
Espaces de retour : dynamiques spatiales, mémorielles et identitaires dans Le premier jardin d’Anne Hébert et Surfacing de Margaret Atwood

This work examines the interrelations between space, memory and identity in Le premier jardin by Anne Hébert and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. We seek to know how the concepts of space and place can provide a better understanding of the memory and identity dynamics involved in return narratives. Based on a common experience, that of returning to homeland, we will study how the characters’ difficulties in recalling, situating, living or simply being are linked to their conflictual relationship to space. Even if they are tempted by oblivion, the return to the places of childhood imposes on the protagonists a sensuous memory. The return also shows how beings are linked to place, even shaped by it, and how they can however act on it. The desire to exist through a coherent identity is also one of dwelling and belonging to space. Finally, we will see how Alexis Nouss’ concept of non-place of makes it possible to rethink the space of return.

Keyphrases: Anne Hébert, Margaret Atwood, comparative literature, theories of space, place, temporality, sensuous landscapes, memory, identity, non-place
Discursos sobre la lengua y la movilidad en La Paz, Bolivia

The mobility of people, goods and services in the Andean region of Bolivia is a local and global phenomenon produced by diverse economic, political and environmental conditions. The rural-urban mobility of the past decades has characterized the process of urbanization of the Department and the city of La Paz. The development, distribution, appropriation and use of the urban space have been marked by narratives of exclusion and inclusion produced by a long and complex history of external and internal colonization. In parallel to the growth of the city as the material support for migrants and residents, the urban space has become a place of linguistic and symbolic frictions mediated by discourse. Despite this fact, there are few studies that analyze, explain and interpret this urban context through the use of discourse. The objective of this research is therefore to inquire about the changes in the discursive contents resulting from the increase in rural-urban mobility from 1952 to 1985 in the urban space. It is through the interview form that we have access to different linguistic repertories and to the points of views of Castellan monolingual non migrant residents, as well as Aymara-Castellan bilingual migrant residents. With respect to the theory and methodology, this research resorts to Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the interviews conducted in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, in 2014. Among the findings, we can indicate that: the urban space is not only the agglomeration of infrastructure and actors but it also reflects the trajectories and the representation of migrant residents as well as non-migrants residents. Despite the increase of rural-urban mobility, the use of Aymara is restrained to informal spaces, the language is not transmitted to the new generations and the economic ascendency of resident migrants is perceived as illegitimate

Keyphrases: La Paz, Mobility, language use, urban discourse, bilingualism Aymara-Castellan, critical discourse analysis