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Urquhart, Steven Douglas.

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L'esthetique du monstrueux dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Gerard Bessette.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	L'esthetique du monstrueux dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Gerard Bessette./
Author:	Urquhart, Steven Douglas.
Description:	434 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: A, page: 3826.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-10A.
Subject:	Literature, Canadian (French). -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR18557
ISBN:	9780494185575

L'esthetique du monstrueux dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Gerard Bessette.
Urquhart, Steven Douglas.

L'esthetique du monstrueux dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Gerard Bessette. - 434 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: A, page: 3826.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University (Canada), 2006.

An heuristic tool, the aesthetic of the monstrous in Gerard Bessette's prose explores from an epistemological and ontological point of view the relativity of our perception of right and wrong and its corollary notions. This binary opposition is deconstructed in Bessette's works by means of the relativisation of what is normally conceived as monstrous, which we show to be the product of idealistic religious and scientific paradigms derived from a fallacious, dehumanizing and truly "monstrous" conviction in an unknown and unknowable absolute. In the light of this aesthetic that works as one of the bases of this author's work, and several other theoretical frameworks related to the monstrous including Freud's theory of the "uncanny", Bakhtin's "carnavalesque", Kristeva's "abject", Girard's "scapegoat" and Derrida's "deconstruction", we individually examine Bessette's novels, beginning with La Bagarre (1958) and ending with Le Semestre (1979) in terms of the polysemic definition of the monster and associated adjectives. We show how many elements in the settings of these novels, in the actions, words, and thoughts of the characters as well as in the plot and denouement relate to the concept of the monstrous and its rapport with the author's irony and the deconstructive philosophy that underpins his writing. We underline the monstrous element or elements central to each novel (hybridity and the internal monster, the scapegoat, the institutional mask, metamorphosis, cartesianism, the labyrinth, the family, the anthropoid and the forbidden) and their philosophical meaning not only in the context of Bessette's works and the social, political, cultural and linguistic history of Quebec, but also in relation to the ontological question of human nature. By so doing, we demonstrate the evolution of the aesthetic within Bessette's works, which analyses and questions in different ways the paradoxical nature of human beings and the institutions they found.

ISBN: 9780494185575Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022326
Literature, Canadian (French).

L'esthetique du monstrueux dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Gerard Bessette.
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