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We find many embedded letters in ancient historiographic narratives. These letters are not simply literary ornaments, but truly historical causes of the narrated events. In other words, they contribute significantly to the course of the plot. Pioneer in Christian historiography, the author of Luke-Acts also uses embedded letters in the second part of his diptych. By reconsidering the embedded letters in the Acts of the Apostles, this paper will question their narrative functions and credibility.
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Marie de l'Incarnation wrote a substantial body of correspondence of which only a few hundred letters remain. Alongside her dialogue with correspondents from France and New France, the Ursuline tirelessly pursues an interior conversation consisting of prayers to God. This exchange is a place of secrets, a space that one would have trouble putting into words, let alone letters; however, she is entreated by her son and other correspondents to, nonetheless, disclose it. Her readers thus participate in another conversation, one which always returns to the “eternal Word.” This Other inhabits all of her letters and, imperceptibly, turns her readers into third party spectators and witnesses to the mystery. In so doing, Marie de l'Incarnation invites each of her readers to participate in the mystical experience, using the space of the letter to open up another dialogue in which there is neither writer nor reader.
Keywords: Marie de l'Incarnation, mystique, épistolaire, Nouvelle‑France, lecteur, Marie de l'Incarnation, mystical, epistolary, New France, reader
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In qualitative research, approaches involving narratives are often classified as narrative inquiry. This text aims to characterize this field of research, which is distinctive for its focus on understanding phenomena experienced by individuals through the practice of self-narration. This is achieved by defining several theoretical and methodological criteria: differentiating types of discourse, specifying modes of expression, and formalizing narrative frameworks. This groundwork allows for a deeper understanding of the practice and stakes of narrative interviews, the refinement of guiding techniques, and the characterization of the temporal and experiential dimensions of narrative data.
Keywords: Entretien, enquête, microphénoménologie, récit, recherche narrative, vécu, Interview, Inquiry, Microphenomenology, Narrative, Narrative Research, Lived Experience
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Le présent mémoire cherche à comprendre l'articulation entre divers éléments formels dans le récit Folle de Nelly Arcan. Dans une optique féministe, nous proposons d'étudier le dispositif épistolaire, les mécanismes temporels et la tonalité ironique. Les stratégies épistolaires mises en place dans Folle sont celles de la lettre d'amour et de la lettre de suicide. La protagoniste forge dans une lettre adressée à un journaliste qui l'a quittée la figure de l'« amoureuse épistolaire » (Jensen), une amante éperdue d'amour, trahie par un homme idéalisé. Nous considérons cette figure comme le « moi posthume » (Volant) de la narratrice, c'est-à-dire l'image habilement construite qu'elle souhaite laisser dans l'esprit des survivants après son suicide. Grâce à son écriture, la narratrice réactualise (illusoirement) le temps de l'amour, …
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In her article, “Le parti pris du niaiseux,” Laurence Côté-Fournier recreates a community of authors and artists around Mathieu Arsenault who are united by their sense of self-deprecation and their taste for irony, giving silliness “a new legitimacy, a new visibility.” To support her point-of-view, she brings together selected works of Québécois literature, including those of Réjean Ducharme and of François Blais, and examines the manner in which they embrace “inconsistencies and ridicule as a way to express a generalized fatigue with anyone who takes her or himself too seriously.” Working with this highly pertinent premise, we proceed to analyze representations of friendship in the work of François Blais. It is a question of reflecting on what friendship reveals about the rapport with the other, but also with reality, in Blais' fictional world. How does it serve as a refuge, a crutch, for his main characters? What influence does it have on the very form of the novels? How does it provide a glimpse into a disenchantment with living together and even with the possibility of forming a community? In what ways does it allow us to think about the community as it evolves over time; or to be more precise, how does friendship allow us to reflect on the alliance formed by the characters and their author? In the end, these questions lead us to consider the paradoxical role that one can attribute to these friendships, sorts of restricted communities that quietly resist a group larger than themselves while belonging somewhat to it . Above all, they shed light on the familiarity or the kind of uninhibited proximity that emerges from Blais' novels, whose narrators are most often on a first name basis with language, literature, history and their reality.
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This article is a qualitative and descriptive study, based on teaching students, aged 13-14, about epistolary art in France. First of all, the section based on a comparative reading of Calamity Jane's Lettres à sa fille (1997 and 2007) and the comic book Calamity Jane (1967) by Morris & Goscinny is presented and some observations about presenting them in the classroom are detailed. Secondly, the article makes further suggestions to enrich these letters' study, mainly by means of enunciative variations, life-narratives dealing with fiction and truth, but also the narrative and graphical integration of actual photographs pertaining to the historical character. What makes these improvements possible is the new augmented edition' of the letters in 2007, in which the question of an apocryphal manuscript is revealed to French readers, and also several graphic novels' publication, since 2004, based on the first or the new edition such as Fontaine's Calamity and Blanchin & Perrissin's Martha Jane Cannary. These comic books allow us to study with students Calamity Jane's modern myth reception' in Francophone countries in Francophone countries.
Keywords: récits de vie, art épistolaire, Calamity Jane, intermédialité, bande dessinée, life-narrative, epistolary art, Calamity Jane, intermediality, comic books