Cargando…

Narratology and Text : Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québecois Literature /

In Narratology and Text, Paul Perron examines the role that literature plays in the formation of French Canadian identity. Perron presents a narratological and semiotic analysis of canonical non-fictional and fictional texts from New France and Quebec, and illustrates how citizens of French Catholic...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perron, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Narratology. Introduction to narratology ; A.J. Greimas and narratology
  • pt. 2. Discovery, conversion, and colonization. First encounters and myth making : Jacques Cartier's Voyages to New France ; Settlement and conversion : Jean de Brebeuf's Jesuit relations of 1635 and 1636 ; Founding nations : Jesuit-Huron relations in seventeenth-century New France ; Narrating and reading the body : the martyrdom of Isaac Jogues
  • pt. 3. Historiography and the novel : nation and identity. Before and after the fall : the historical novel : Les anciens canadiens (The Canadians of old) ; Family, group, and nation in the nineteenth-century agrarian novel : La terre paternelle (The paternal farm) ; Nationalism and the novel of colonialization : Maria Chapdelaine ; On the margins of nation : the realist novel : La Scouine ; History and the urban novel : Bonheur d'occasion (The tin flute) ; Utopia, family, and nation : the wilderness novel : Agaguk.