Narratology and Text : : Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québecois Literature / / Paul J. Perron.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Narratology
- 1. Introduction to Narratology
- 2. A.J. Greimas and Narratology
- Part II. Discovery, Conversion, and Colonization
- 3. First Encounters and Myth Making: Jacques Cartier's Voyages to New France
- 4. Settlement and Conversion: Jean de Brebeuf's Jesuit Relations of 1635 and 1636
- 5. Founding Nations: Jesuit-Huron Relations in Seventeenth-Century New France
- 6. Narrating and Reading the Body: The Martyrdom of Isaac Jogues
- Part III. Historiography and the Novel: Nation and Identity
- 7. Before and after the Fall - The Historical Novel: Les Anciens Canadiens (The Canadians of Old)
- 8. Family, Group, and Nation in the Nineteenth-Century Agrarian Novel: La Terre paternelle (The Paternal Farm)
- 9. Nationalism and the Novel of Colonization: Maria Chapdelaine
- 10. On the Margins of Nation - The Realist Novel: La Scouine
- 11. History and the Urban Novel: Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute)
- 12. Utopia, Family, and Nation - The Wilderness Novel: Agaguk
- 13 Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index