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In Foucault's view, individuals are able to modify themselves through spirituality. Accordingly, spirituality is intimately related to the way in which he conceives the dynamics of transformation and constitution of subjectivity. But what does Foucault mean when he argues that spirituality implies self-transformation ? And how does he develop such a view of spirituality ? This paper shows that the Foucauldian conception of spirituality both draws upon and modifies Georges Bataille's approach to experience. While for Bataille experience is to be conceived in terms of a passive instance of torment (supplice) or ecstasy, in Foucault's view experience is defined by the action of the individual. This radical contrast between passivity and action becomes clearer by comparing mysticism, one of the main references of Bataille's conception of experience, and asceticism, the spiritual activity par excellence according to Foucault. By showing how Foucault reinterprets Bataille's account of experience through a reflection on spirituality, the article draws attention to the centrality of action to Foucault's late account of freedom.
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This article compares the first two collections of poetry by Franco-Ontarian Éric Charlebois while drawing on Bertrand Gervais's work on reading regimes to explore the lectoral limits of “universalist” (or “decontextualized”) minority literature. It shows how Faux-fuyants (2002), a “particularist” (or “overcontextualized”) collection of poetry rooted in Northern French Ontario, allows readers familiar with Franco-Ontarian literature to choose between what Gervais calls reading-in-progression and reading-in-comprehension. On the other hand, Péristaltisme: clystère poétique (2004) deals with a universal topic, digestion, while constantly challenging these two reading regimes. Rather than being able to choose their reading regime, readers are put on a régime (“diet”) through reading which, by proving itself “indigestible”, risks leaving them hungry for more. Overall, this comparative study shows that universalism is not necessarily the solution to the reading challenges that the critical discourse on minority literature often associates with particularism.
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The writings, Sept lacs plus au nord (1993), by Robert Lalonde, and Cowboy (1993), by Louis Hamelin, aim to explore the actual reflexions of transcultural problematics based on the examination of alterity between white and native peoples. More specifically, examinated in depth are the symbolic components of a “desire to be métis,” as an heuristic metaphor connecting the will to become other in contact with the reality of the First Nations people. By the reconstruction of the native figure and by examining the written accounts of New France, it will be demonstrated that this contemporary novel puts in context the ambivalence of identity. This ambivalence of identity is represented by hybrid francophone québécois heroes, who share the need of regeneration and the anguish of dissolution. The existence of this ambivalent identy becomes a divided identity where a meeting with History takes place: between ethnic conflicts and a fantasy of a refound métis origin.
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Keywords: Anne Hébert, Saint-Denys Garneau, « Le torrent », Contingence, Absurdité, Coïncidence des contraires
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Custom, that is to say the rules of collective life, often has no other purpose than to avoid the bad encounter, the bad alliance, for young men and especially for young women. Let no misfortune happen to those who don't fuss … Misfortune, when it happens, is then transformed into fate. We propose here the ethnocritical hypothesis that the realist novel of the 19th century, which makes these “misfortunes” one of its most tried and tested themes, also explores and reveals their individual, but above all social and cultural logics: there is no chance in unhappiness; even less so in sexual unhappiness. This study concerns the paths and “profiles” of the raped woman. It is based upon the case of Renée Béraud Du Châtel, the upper-bourgeoisie heroine of Zola's La Curée, whose aggression is hardly “enromanced” however, and who is not one of those, a priori, that naturalism “destines” for such a fate.
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Cette thèse explore les représentations de trois femmes étrangères, plus particulièrement leur relation au mourir et au nourrir, dans la Bible hébraïque. Les personnages à l'étude sont les suivants : Yaël la nomade, meurtrière de Sisera en Jg 4,17-22 et en Jg 5,24-30 ; Izebel la Sidonienne, mise à mort en 2 R 9,22.30-37 ; la femme folle de Pr 9,13-18, qui attire les jeunes hommes vers le She'ôl. Dans chaque scène, les thématiques de la mise à mort et du repas se révèlent dans leur étroite proximité. Pour cette raison, une double interrogation a guidé l'exégèse de chacune des péricopes à l'étude : de quelles manières les dimensions mortifère et nourricière de la représentation de chaque femme participent-elles à la construction de leur féminité …