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Author Perron, Paul J
Title Narratology and Text : Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québecois Literature
Imprint Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003
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Series Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
Note Intro -- 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 Brébeuf'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 -- A -- C -- D -- E -- I -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Fusing semiotics, narratology, stylistics, and literary and cultural theory with one of the only English-language studies on Greimas, this important work offers an original and thought-provoking contribution to studies of literature and semiotics
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Link Print version: Perron, Paul J. Narratology and Text : Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québecois Literature Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2003 9780802036889
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