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La demeure (in)habitable : imaginaires de la maison dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Élise Turcotte

House is the most figurative place in Élise Turcotte's novels. Usually used as a shelter against bad weather, the house becomes, for this author, a refuge against human dramas (except when it happens inside the house). As an ambivalent figure, the house gets out of her purely functional vocation to embrace a symbolic value that relates the subject to the world on the mode of living.   Our analysis of the house in this thesis is based on a rigorous reading of Élise Turcotte's novels, specifically Le bruit des choses vivantes (1991) and La maison étrangère (2002), that present two female narrators who have just been left by their partner in love. This drama forces them to change their house as much as their housing; this break-up puts their family and every day life to the test, and shakes their personal situation and fundamental beliefs. Major transformations appear inside their house, where the women take refuge. They consider this place, their home, as a symbol of a personal resistance against a world that is meant to be destroyed. The house revives therefore the traditional belief and yearns at a new foundation of the world, foundation that would start with a return to home. That is also an opportunity for the author to make out of the house a place where the characters can become refocused in this period of History where people are searching for a sense of life, that goes through, first of all, a sense of living (in the house first, in the world then) and in a period where Québec's literature is in a mode of being off-center.

Keyphrases: Élise Turcotte, Élise Turcotte, house and home, novel, theme, symbolism
Le choc de la rencontre : vers une littérature de la relation dans l’écriture de voyage ; suivi de Vers Sagana

Throughout the essay component of this master’s thesis, Paul Ricoeur’s theoretical approaches regarding the narrative form will be juxtaposed with those of Édouard Glissant regarding the emergence of a « poetics of relation », understood as the poetic deployment of an imaginary realm based on the relation to the other, without fear of dilution. My corpus consists of three key texts in Quebec travel literature: Jacques Cartier’s Relations, Lahontan’s Dialogues avec un Sauvage, and Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues. The relation to the other, at the heart of the stories in those three texts will permit the analysis of the progress of a literature, but also that of a culture of the Relation in Quebec. In the novel Vers Sagana, Rose and Yann decide upon their first meeting to travel together, while both at loss for reference points. In a context of the resurgence of the dispossession process related to the American history ever since its genesis, the voices of the characters mingle to give shape to the obsession with ever-elusive roots.

Keyphrases: Autochtones, Édouard Glissant, Jacques Cartier, Jacques Poulin, Lahontan, Narrative identity, Poetics of relation, Travel accounts, Conquest, Natives
Le dialogue entre l'essai et le roman dans Le siècle de Jeanne

This thesis is about generic hybridity and its effect in Yvon Rivard’s Le Siècle de Jeanne. The thesis mainly covers this novel, but also the two books of essays from the same author published in the same period, namely Personne n’est une île and Une idée simple.           Considering that literary and metaphysics reflections are a great part of Rivard’s fiction work, we hypothesize that the essay genre plays an important role in Le Siècle de Jeanne. In the first chapter, based on the work of fiction and essay theorists, we question the generic hybridity of the novel. The study translates into a thorough analysis of Le Siècle de Jeanne considering fiction and essay characteristics.       In the second chapter, our first conclusions enable us to study the relation between both literary genres within the novel and to demonstrate that the essay takes place as reflective digressions in the narrative universe. The purpose of this thesis being to develop a better understanding of the effect of generic hybridity, we analyze the coexistence of both genres. The interaction between essayistic parts and the main tendencies of the novel, namely intimism and autofiction, are at the heart of our reflection. Finally, we expand our study by analyzing the two books of essays mentioned above with the reflective parts of Le Siècle de Jeanne. We are primarily interested in themes and their intertextual relationships.

Keyphrases: Quebec literature, Generic hybridity, Fiction, Essay, Intertextuality, Self-reflexivity
Le défaut de l'âme : performance et ironie du genre dans L'Ève future d'Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam et Les chiennes savantes de Virginie Despentes

This thesis takes its roots in the question of the materiality and theatricality of the gendered body, as it can be understood by a cross-reading of a nineteenth century and a contemporary novel. L’Ève future, by Auguste de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, and Les Chiennes savantes, by Virginie Despentes, are both putting an emphasis on the performance of the feminine gender. By staging characters of seductive women who combine their gendered performance with their work as actress and dancer, Les Chiennes savantes and L’Ève future are suggesting a link between the representation, the seductive power and the ‘reality’ of gender. If womanliness is a play, as Edison and Louise are alluding to in their respective stories; a masquerade according to Riviere; a political category as argued by Wittig; a performance for Butler; a technology for Preciado; does gender still exist that much? Can it be said that irony, which is found as a literary and philosophic device in both novels, by playing with the tension between the true and the fake in a discourse, is renewing the undecidability of the ‘reality’ of gender?

Keyphrases: Virginie Despentes, gender studies, queer studies, feminism
Nuage de cendres, suivi de Voir à travers les murs : la teichoscopie dans Yukonstyle de Sarah Berthiaume

Composed of a play and an essay, this M.A. thesis examines the use of narration in contemporary theatre in Quebec. It focuses specifically on the renewal of the device known as teichoscopia, considered as “vision through the wall”, and its relationship with images. The play, Nuage de cendres, begins with a true event: it relates, with a tone of tragic irony, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, experienced remotely by an Icelandic volcanologist and a young woman escaping from her life in Quebec. Considering teichoscopia both as an editing process and a means of converting words into vision, the play explores the issues of loss, silence, ashes and fascination for images. The second part of the thesis consists of an essay titled Voir à travers les murs : la teichoscopie dans Yukonstyle de Sarah Berthiaume. In order to analyze the relay of omniscient ability between the characters who narrate what they see through the wall, the essay proposes the concept of the character-seer. It studies how the play integrates the Native American figure of the crow, and how the concepts of “everywhen” (Dominique Legros), anachronism and survival (Georges Didi-Huberman) intersect. Teichoscopia thus builds a territory that resists delimitation: the “vision through the wall” marks the crossing not only of spatial and temporal boundaries, but those between beings as well. Finally, this essay shows how, in Yukonstyle, contrary to other contemporary plays that often use narration to express withdrawal into oneself and lack of communication, teichoscopia makes possible true openness and transmission.

Keyphrases: Sarah Berthiaume, Yukonstyle, teichoscopie, cendre, image, teichoscopia, narration, territory, survival, contemporary Quebec theatre, ashes
Poetry as a Theoretical Framework for Resurgence : Indigenous Knowledge in the Verse of Fontaine, Bordeleau and Bacon

In the wake of the devastating residential school legacy, Indigenous critical theorists are rejecting the model of reconciliation proposed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission because it perpetuates colonial agendas. Their alternative to reconciliation is resurgence, or the use of Indigenous schools of thought in policy development. Resurgence springs from a celebration of Indigenous cultures and traditions. This thesis establishes the presence of resurgence in the poetry of three Indigenous female québecois poets of three generations: Joséphine Bacon, Virginia Pasamapéo Bordeleau, and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine. The first chapter is comprised of a literature review focusing on two subjects: 1) my right as a non-Native critic to analyze Indigenous literature, and 2) the rejection of reconciliation in favour of resurgence by leading Indigenous critical theorists in Canada. The second chapter identifies orality as a key aspect of resurgence, and its presence in the poetry of the three authors. The third chapter maps the poets’ work in connection to land-based knowledge and stories, as further proof of the presence of resurgence. Through the analysis of remediation, decolonizing language and various other factors explored throughout this thesis, it is confirmed that Bacon, Bordeleau and Fontaine all incorporate resurgence into their work, thus inspiring readers of all cultures to take action on environmental and Indigenous issues.

Keyphrases: Indigenous, Reconciliation, Resurgence, Poetry, Orality, Remediation, Anticolonialism, Land, Stories
La mise en récit de l'espace : le monument, le mémorial et le WTC comme dispositifs rhétoriques

Thinking space narrative helps circulate in the margins of those of art, literature, politics, film. The rhetorical analysis of space narratives and its storytelling process shows, in three stages, that architectural contribution defines and redefines the possibilities of movement of speech in their opening or closing. First, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, by the analysis of Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which deconstructs the programmatic narrative of an order allows a new performativity of reality. Secondly, the monumentality of Lower Manhattan, by its verticality, presents its narrative process set as a palimpsest where all traces, ideas, practices, utopias and destruction are legitimizing and criticizing elements in the narratives being written. By passing its representation in literature, in particular, the verticality is then a leakage whose upward movement, then down, shows the incompleteness of the story. Last, the building of the World Trade Center Memorial, re-entered into a unitary discursive model understood as a wide dispositif that reaffirms a return to an order of discourse, a political age memory. This space is one of the pilgrimage, the sacred place which makes his dead speak on behalf of an authority, which withhold the possibility of speech form outside. This reflection intends to present those spaces which are put in narrative.

Keyphrases: World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Architecture, Lower Manhattan, Space, Vietnam Veteran Memorial, Narratives, Rhetoric
Les idées économiques en contexte : la tradition de la pensée allemande et sa réception aujourd’hui

Market liberalisation and standardisation have rendered national economies unstable. The paradigmatic changes caused by the situation have remodeled the definition and role of political economy. They have also affected state institutions, may it be the welfare state and the labour market. This research paper brings forward interpretation and analyses differences according to different traditions of economic thought. Germany’s case becomes interesting since it has a specific tradition of economic thought with its more social perspectives and, according to the varieties of capitalism theory, a very distinct capitalist model compared to the usually more preferred Anglo-Saxon model. The German social economist Wolfgang Streeck arguments that capitalism is slowly separating itself from its democratic aspect whereas other researchers come to other conclusions. In this context of liberalisation and standardisation, should there not be a standardisation of analyses and economic school of thoughts, themselves defined by their political and social context? Is it possible to conclude that Streeck’s conclusions are defined by traditional German economic thought? The research paper links two approaches: the economic approach (how to produce more) and the political one (how to distribute). The discipline of political economy takes the social aspect of economy into consideration. The methodology consists of sketching a portrait of Streeck’s economic thought and situating him historically, nationally and internationally, in order to demonstrate that, even with globalisation, national economies and national economic thought are still highly relevant.

Keyphrases: Varieties of capitalism, Democratic capitalism, Political economy, Economic thought, History of economic thought, National thought, Crisis of capitalism
Espaces d'énonciation et prises de parole en contexte numérique

The subject of this memoir addresses the questions of the written word in a digital context. The digital allows a series of cultural, writing and reading practices that redefines a number of roles that the printed media had assigned during its five hundred years reign. This memoir proposes to define these practices and explores where they find themselves in rupture or in continuation with those that prevailed with the printed media. It will be discussed how these practices and the technology that permits them opens new spaces for writing and how these spaces differs from those that existed in printed culture. This memoir also tries to identify the new types of writers that emerge in these particular spaces. It shows under which conditions they write and how the digital media affects the word itself.

Keyphrases: flux, usager, digital media, written word, blog, literature, reading practices, social media, networks, user, death of the author
Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez : del Reino a la República, la “archivada” felicidad de un ilustrado americano

Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez (1758-1819) is recognized as the father of Colombian journalism and as a participant in the Enlightened milieu of Santafé de Bogotá. This research proposes, in a first chapter, an approach to his life, his work and his legacy, tracing his work as editor of the Papel Periódico de Santafé de Bogotá (1791-1797), the Redactor Americano (1806-1808), the Alternativo del Redactor Americano (1807-1809), Los Crepúsculos de España y de Europa (1809) and La Constitución Feliz (1810). This chapter also introduces the document El Reino Feliz (1794), in which Rodriguez produces a report on the evils afflicting the society of New Granada. The proposed analysis seeks to understand the work of Rodriguez as a set of the efforts of a citizen of the Republic of Letters to achieve an elusive happiness in his adopted homeland. This section will also deal with the vicissitudes that this lettered, public librarian, newspaper publisher and enlightened subject, lived through, facing the challenge of reconciling his Catholicism and his enlightened views, his americanity and his hispanity, his deep respect for tradition and his strong passion for modernity.  Then, we present a set of 12 transcriptions. These are excerpts from the epistolary exchange generated between Rodríguez and agents of the Spanish monarchic system. Among these transcriptions, the reader is going to find 3 already presented in a previous research and 9 unpublished transcriptions. This exercise allows the reader to see the relationship between Rodriguez’s ideas, expressed within the private sphere (although official), with those formulated in his newspapers. Finally, the reader is introduced to the concept of happiness in the XVIIIth and early XIXth century. Happiness was a main goal of the enlightened world and numerous ideas were produced to achieve this objective.

Keyphrases: El Reino Feliz, La Constitución Feliz, Enlightenment, Happiness, New Granada, American homeland, Colonial periodical press, Republic of Letters
La psychosphère dans True Detective

Inspired by Jung's collective unconscious, the concept of a psychosphere, as seen in HBO's hit series True Detective (2014), underlines the narrative structure of the show. Describing the invisible and the intangible is only made possible by the study of its manifestations. This thesis analyses the phenomena and concept which enable the representation of what Ralph Noyes describes as a « vast and complex cauldron of ideas, memories, volitions, desires and all the other furniture of conscious experience and unconscious mental functioning3 ». Apart from broader questions of genealogy, the narrative poetics of the psychosphere are essentially archival: True Detective contains many allusions to previous Gothic fictions, which point toward an trans-historical explanation for the return of ritualized violence. However, any such explanation is fragmented, incoherent, and ultimately deferred.

Keyphrases: True Detective, Southern Gothic, Weird Fiction, American television, American literature, Collective unconscious, Parapsychology, Parapsychologie, Hantise, Nic Pizzolatto, Haunting
L’étude de l’influence des facteurs légaux et extralégaux dans le cheminement des affaires de fraude au Québec

This study aim to better understand the attrition phenomenon in Canada. On one hand, it seeks to identify the factors that influence criminal decisions in the pursuit or stay of proceedings. On the other hand, it seeks to verify whether or not these factors are comparable at each decision-making stage. To achieve this, an analysis of various decisions that have been taken by police officers, prosecutors and judges was carried out. A total of 525 criminal cases was considered. Descriptive analyzes show that the sample consists mainly of men (77%) with no criminal history of fraud (76%). Multivariate analyzes show that legal factors are the best predictors of criminal decisions. As observed in the literature, the presence of criminal history and the seriousness of the offense appear to influence the decisions. Thereby, the attempt to steal a certain amount of money, the number of offenses committed and the presence of a criminal history of fraud appear to influence these decisions. When the suspect makes an attempt theft and an offense has been committed (compared to several), charges are less likely to be recommended against him by the police. This probability is also lower when the suspect has a criminal history of fraud (a marginal effect was observed). Moreover, it seems that the influence of factors differs from one stage to another. A more explicit return on these results is carried out in the discussion.

Keyphrases: Judicial processing, Legal factors, Extralegal factors, Fraud, Identity theft
Le lien maternel à l'épreuve de la victimisation : impact des perceptions du rôle de mère des femmes victimes de violence conjugale sur leur lien à l’enfant

The issue of violence against women is brought to public knowledge by feminist movements since the 1970s, and the phenomenon of domestic violence is getting more visible. With the emergence of the concern about the presence of child(ren) in such a context of violence in the 1990s, the stakes multiply. Our research interest lies precisely between these two subjects and questions the issue of motherhood in context of domestic violence. More specifically, our study apprehend motherhood and the presence of child(ren) as possible turning points in a victimization trajectory. These include identifying the women’s perceptions of their mother's role compared to social constructs, and to specify the parent-child(ren) relationship in the devictimization process. To do so, a qualitative method was favored. Semi -structured interviews were conducted with seventeen mothers victims of domestic violence accommodated in four second stage shelters in Montreal with their child(ren). This method is truly the most adequate to capture the human experience in its subjectivity. The results are presented in two articles. The first article extends previous studies on the subject, and tends to confirm several hypotheses found in the literature. It aims to add data to support the conclusions of other authors, and thus contribute to give visibility to the phenomenon that still affects many women. The second article is more exploratory. Indeed, it focuses on issues that arise after the separation, yet still unknown, especially when correlated with the presence of child(ren). Briefly, our analyzes confirm the structuring quality of mother-child(ren) bond in context of domestic violence. While the child may act as an anchor in the violent relationship, he can also be a tremendous motivation to end that relationship. But while it is used during the relationship by the violent partner as an effective tool to control his victim, he becomes the only link between the abuser and his victim in post-separation period and is even more exploited for this purpose. The child then becomes a primary victim. Several issues are emerging, both for women and for their child(ren), and must be controlled for a lasting and definitive devictimization.

Keyphrases: Domestic violence, Victimization, Motherhood, Mother child(ren) relationship, Exposure to violence, Path, Post-separation
Analyse de la variation des taux d’homicide et de la perception de la criminalité à travers les grandes villes du monde

More and more studies focus on variations in homicide rates and crime across cities. These suggest that social, economic and demographic factors explain these variations, such as gross national income per capita, income inequality, corruption, alcohol consumption, cities population size, etc. However, these searches were mainly conducted in North America, and none were interested in these changes across the planet. This thesis will investigate homicide rates, in respect to known predictors, of the largest cities across the world. It will also incorporate data from Numbeo.com about crime perception against person and property as well as the feeling of safety during the day and night. This is done to observe if differences or similarities in the factors linked to homicide rates in cities exist.  This study will focus on the homicide rate, the crime perception against person and property as well as the feeling of safety in 108 cities across the globe. The goal is to identify principle-contributing factors to crime. Bivariate analysis will determine to which degree these three variables share common area and further, which variables form the social, economic and demographic variables can be appropriately integrated into the linear multiple regressions analysis model.  Multivariate analysis results indicate that social income inequalities and corruption are the strongest predictors of homicide rates, crime perception and safety feeling. Corruption emerged stronger on crime perception and feeling of safety than social income inequalities compared to homicide rate. Thus, these results indicate that the same factors are associated with crime in cities as in countries, although some small differences exist.

Keyphrases: Macrosociology, Cities, Homicide rate, Crime perception, Safety feeling, Social disorganization