Katherine Marchant
Master of Arts in French (MA)
Research Topic
Métafiction, métanarration et indices de fictionnalité dans la représentation de la Seconde guerre mondiale chez Modiano et Binet
Vincent Gelinas-Lemaire
Associate Professor
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Arts, Literature and Subjectivity
Comparative Literature
Creative Writing
French Literature (1945 to the present)
Québec and French-Canadian Literature and Culture
Spatial Poetics
Visual Culture
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La creation de la fin : l'evolution de l'absurde dans la litterature de l'apocalypse du XXIe siecle (The creation of the end: the evolution of the absurd in apocalypse literature of the 21st century) (2021)
Many studies are dedicated to the theatre of the absurd, a comical anti-theatre born from the horrors and atrocities committed during the World War II. However, there is a lack of research which seeks to compare this movement from the 20th century and apocalypse narratives, which are also written in response to the catastrophes that take place around the world. Our study proposes a comparative analysis of five works—two theatre pieces from emblematic playwrights of the absurd, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, as well as three apocalyptic novels—in order to determine the thematic echoes of the absurd that can be observed in end of world literature. The first section of our study focuses on the representation of spaces and the way in which the authors and playwrights portray the deterioration of the world in a similar manner. The second section addresses the subject of language and its loss of value in the damned world of our corpus.
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- California Dreamin’ : Trois variations sur le lieu (2024)
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 28 (4), 569-584 - As the World Falls Apart: Living through the Apocalypse in Christian Guay-Poliquin’s Le poids de la neige and Catherine Mavrikakis’s Oscar de Profundis (2020)
Francophone Literature as World Literature, 136-150 - Dissolve everything: The poetics of ruin in CharØgnards by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe (2020)
Etudes Francaises, 56 (1), 77-90 - Presentation. The world in ruins: Broken spaces of contemporary literature (2020)
Etudes Francaises, 56 (1), 5-13 - The Narrative Lives of Places: Literature as an Architecture (2018)
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 22 (4), 454-462 - Materials: Symbols and senses (2011)
Design Principles and Practices, 5 (4), 29-34
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