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Angéline de Montbrun

A Psychological Romance of Quebec

By: Laure Conan

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Angéline de Montbrun

A Psychological Romance of Quebec

By: Laure Conan

Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind the pen-name. Her daring in writing a psychological novel was 'forgiven' because she was a woman, and her anticipating the trend towards this type of novel was attributed to 'that intuition natural to her sex.' In Angéline de Montbrun, Laure Conan broke with what has been called the 'collective romanticism' of nineteenth-century French-Canadian land, with the rural myth, the exhortative tone, and the vast canvas. These concerns are basically absent in her work. Further, she eschewed the details of adventure and intrigue, the wooden, predictable characters, and the transparent intricacies of romantic love in favour of writing about the inner turmoil of an individual, live character, a young woman caught in a complex web of human appetites, aspirations, and relationships. Because of the novel's realism, one of the most persistent topics of discussion about Laure Conan has been whether or not Angéline de Montbrun is autobiographical. Recent studies indicate it may be. In any case, Angéline was the most complex character in Canadian fiction to 1882 and for some time to come. Traditionally, Angéline de Montbrun was regarded as a novel of Christian renunciation, and Angéline as the most holy of heroines. For a long time no one went too deeply into the relationships between the characters, but in 1961 Jean Le Moyne bluntly stated that 'the lovers in the novel are not Maurice Darville and Angéline, but M. de Montbrun and his daughter.' Since then there has been a proliferation of interpretations and psychological studies of the novel, and there is no going back to the simpler view of it.

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210

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University of Toronto Press

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1442637609

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9781442637603

Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

By: Marie-Laure Ryan

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Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

By: Marie-Laure Ryan

In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.

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310

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Indiana University Press

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0253350042

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9780253350046

Storyworlds Across Media

Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology

By: Marie-Laure Ryan,Jan-No‘l Thon

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Storyworlds Across Media

Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology

By: Marie-Laure Ryan,Jan-No‘l Thon

The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding mediaOCoeverything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video gamesOCois key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. "Storyworlds across Media" explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness?a The first part of the volume critically assesses the cross- and transmedial validity of narratological concepts such as storyworld, narrator, representation of subjectivity, and fictionality. The second part deals with issues of multimodality and intermediality across media. The third part explores the relation between media convergence and transmedial storyworlds, examining emergent forms of storytelling based on multiple media platforms. Taken together, these essays build the foundation for a media-conscious narratology that acknowledges both similarities and differences in the ways media narrate. aa

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416

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803255330

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9780803255333

Avatars of Story

By: Marie-Laure Ryan

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Avatars of Story

By: Marie-Laure Ryan

Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms, revealing how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars. Ryan considers texts such as the reality television show Survivor, the film The Truman Show, and software-driven hypertext fiction, and anticipates the time when media will provide new ways to experience stories.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452908788

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9781452908786

Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

By: Alistair Charles Rolls,Clara Dominque Sitbon,Marie-Laure Jacqueline Vuaille-Barcan

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Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

By: Alistair Charles Rolls,Clara Dominque Sitbon,Marie-Laure Jacqueline Vuaille-Barcan

In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel’s translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or “original”, translation of “ostensibly” American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture.

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BRILL

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9004359001

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9789004359000

Angéline de Montbrun: A Psychological Romance of Quebec

By: Laure Conan

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Angéline de Montbrun: A Psychological Romance of Quebec

By: Laure Conan

Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. Her daring in writing a psychological novel was 'forgiven'; because she was a woman, and her anticipating the trend towards this type of novel was attributed to 'that intuition natural to her sex.

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0802062342

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L' Obscure Souffrance

By: Laure Conan

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L' Obscure Souffrance

By: Laure Conan

Marie-Louise Felicite Angers, dite Laure Conan (1845-1924), est une ecrivaine canadienne- francaise nee et morte a La Malbaie (Canada-Est, aujourd hui le Quebec). En 1878, elle emploie le pseudonyme de Laure Conan afin de faire publier, dans La Revue de Montreal, une nouvelle intitule Un Amour Vrai (1879). Elle publie son roman le plus celebre, Angeline de Montbrun, en 1884. Une ecole de niveau secondaire a Chicoutimi, de meme qu une bibliotheque du quartier Vimont, a Laval, portent aujourd hui son nom. A La Malbaie une bibliotheque, une ecole primaire ainsi qu une rue portent egalement son nom.

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1409935361

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Angéline de Montbrun

Angéline de Montbrun

Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

Storyworlds Across Media

Storyworlds Across Media

Avatars of Story

Avatars of Story

Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

Angéline de Montbrun: A Psychological Romance of Quebec

Angéline de Montbrun: A Psychological Romance of Quebec

L' Obscure Souffrance

L' Obscure Souffrance

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