OUELLET François et François PARÉ, Louis Hamelin et ses doubles, Québec, Nota bene (coll. « Essais critiques »), 2008, 262 p. +++ Monographie
### « Louis Hamelin et ses doubles se donne à lire à plusieurs niveaux: Hamelin et ses personnages, le héros et ses alter ego, le romancier et ses lecteurs. Doubles encore sont les lectures croisées possibles, et multiples sont les traversées, puisqu’elles partagent les sujets abordés et les relancent dans un effet de miroir mais chaque fois déformant - l’angle du regard change, les signes acquièrent de nouvelles formes de savoir. Les romans et le recueil de nouvelles Sauvages forment divers moments d’une oeuvre qui se construit, qui cherche à élaborer sa propre durée à travers un ensemble de discours fondamentaux qui sont continuellement réactualisés à partir de la perspective des principaux personnages. François Ouellet et François Paré, avec leurs propres préoccupations d’essayistes, se sont ici attardés à ces discours en alternant essais et échanges de lettres. Ils mettent ainsi en valeur une oeuvre qui tient une des premières places au sein de la génération qui fait son entrée sur la scène littéraire au tournant des années 1990. Ils mettent en lumière une écriture majeure portée par un souffle et une vigueur infatigables, et un discours dense et d’une rare richesse polysémique. » (Quatrième de couverture) ###
MÉNARD, Jean-Sébastien, « Une certaine Amérique à lire : La Beat Generation et la littérature québécoise », thèse de doctorat, département de langue et littérature françaises, Université McGill, 2007, 362 f. +++ Thèse de doctorat / mémoire de maîtrise
### « The aim of this thesis is to analyse the inscription of the Beat Generation in Quebec literature. It is not a study of the movement’s reception in Quebec when it emerged in the fifties, but rather one of its further reappropriation by Quebec writers. To read this Quebec contemporary corpus necessitates a thorough knowledge of the Beat Generation’s writings and of the studies on the movement and its writers.
Therefore, I will begin by outlining the personal history and literary approach of the main Beat Generation writers, who never wrote a manifest. Then, I will proceed with the analysis of the Quebec corpus by using the main themes of the movement, the textual inscriptions, citations, as well as explicit or hidden references in characters’ names or places. I will also establish affiliations between characters from both corpus. This, of course, by staying as close as possible to the texts, in order to analyse the Beat Generation in Quebec literature.
In the first chapter, I will study what links writers such as Claude Péloquin, Lucien Francoeur, Jean-Paul Daoust and Raôul Duguay to the Beat Generation. Then, I will study the relation of three Quebec writers with Jack Kerouac: Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Gilles Archambault and Jean-Noël Pontbriand are inspired by him and use his work and his biography to talk about themselves.
Finally, I will study writings of authors such as Réjean Ducharme, Jacques Poulin, Dany Laferrière, Louis Hamelin and Michel Vézina, who are interested in certain elements of the Beat Generation and who have integrated them in their writings.
My research relies on the hypothesis that a group of writers from the United States of America had a considerable influence on Quebec literature, giving it a certain American Characteristic. Therefore, by reading Quebec corpus in relation with the Beat Generation movement, I am studying “l’américanité québécoise”. The purpose of this thesis is to show that America is not only a continent where one can travel, it is actually a group of texts to read, that are written in relation to each other and that have roots in a common north American imaginary, territory, history and intellectual nomadism. » (résumé joint à la thèse)
La thèse est écrite en français.
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LEPAGE, Élise, « Géographie des confins. Espace et littérature chez Pierre Morency, Pierre Nepveu et Louis Hamelin », thèse de doctorat, faculty of arts, University of British Columbia, 2010, 374 f. +++ Thèse de doctorat / mémoire de maîtrise
### « This study examines the different relationships between space and literature in the works of contemporary Québécois poet and naturalist Pierre Morency (1942-), novelist Louis Hamelin (1959-), and polymath writer Pierre Nepveu (1945-). The focus is on remote areas (the country, the forest, the small town, and the North) that seem to be unlikely subjects for both writing and the pursuit of an intellectual life, as highlighted by Pierre Nepveu in Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde (1998). Unlike urban space, little research has been conducted on what remote places represent in the contemporary imagination. This topic is all the more important in Québécois literature as regional areas in Québec are associated with conservative ideologies and literary traditions which have been inherited from the province’s history, as well as the “littérature du terroir”.
How do Morency, Nepveu, and Hamelin face the challenge of taking this heritage into account, and representing theses spaces that have changed dramatically over the past fifty years ? This dissertation concentrates on the development of a life of the mind that enables the subject to adopt a reflexive attitude and write. Further, mimesis is not the only field where the interactions between space and literature can be studied: the institutional literary world is examined, as well as the book as a physical space. Therefore, a wide range of methodological frameworks are applied. Using the works of Beaudoin and Lemire, the first chapter shows why the question of space is so crucial to Québécois literary history. Using the theories of Genette, the second chapter argues that the text and the book itself are considered by these writers to be physical parts of their writing. The third chapter offers detailed insights into a few chosen locations, using the theories of Roger and Hamon. The last chapter demonstrates how writing about remote areas questions subjectivity by using a perspective that combines philosophical (Heidegger), psychoanalytic (Anzieu) and aesthetic (Chlovski, Simard-Laflamme) approaches. Finally this study widens to confront itself with the contemporary ecological discourse. » (Résumé joint à la thèse)
Dossier « Louis Hamelin », sous la direction de Michel NAREAU et Jacques PELLETIER, Voix et images, vol. 41, no 1 (no 121 - automne 2015), p. 7-119. +++ Dossier de revue
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