| dc.contributor.advisor |
Bossiere, Camille La, |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Leroux, Jean-François. |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2009-03-25T20:00:05Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2009-03-25T20:00:05Z |
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| dc.date.created |
1996 |
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| dc.date.issued |
2009-03-25T20:00:05Z |
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| dc.identifier.citation |
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 35-05, page: 1146. |
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| dc.identifier.isbn |
9780612156401 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9937 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
The first part of the present work elaborates the "problem" that concerns the study as a whole, namely the crisis in historical consciousness that figures prominently in the fiction of Herman Melville and Victor-Levy Beaulieu. This crisis has as its zero degree the humiliation of historical paradigms and the failure of traditional theodicy that Pierre, or The Ambiguities and Sagamo Job J narrativize. The apprehension of a nonsensical totality of being results in the "horror of history" (Eliade), which dread precipitates various modes of forgetfulness and uchronia. A stalemate emerges from the readings in Chapter One: on the one hand, a solipsistic textual infinite is opened by the death of the fiction of the end; on the other hand, the will to sainthood and eternity portends a form of Western nihilism. It is this "dead wall" of metaphysics that inspires the effort to think more and differently in the chapters that follow. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) |
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| dc.format.extent |
200 p. |
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| dc.publisher |
University of Ottawa (Canada). |
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| dc.subject.classification |
Literature, Comparative. |
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| dc.title |
Modernity after holiness: Time and its other in Herman Melville and Victor-Levy Beaulieu. |
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| dc.type |
M.A.Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. |
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