This thesis attempts to retrace the conditions of birth of the diary as a literary genre. Through the historical transformations of its main characteristics such as the notions of time, individuality and discontinuity, we will further our analysis to the…

The work of Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), the poet, while extremely diverse, presents nonetheless a coherence and a unity of tone which transmit his artistic vision and at the same time reveal his creative process., Three works in particular, Opium--Journal d'une…

In Theory of the Novel, Georg Lukács suggests that one of the defining traits of characters in novels is that they are always on a quest. We generally study the "novelistic quest" from that point of view, referring to a…

In this thesis, we wish to observe French Canadian literary criticism in 1950, during what is referred to as a "dark age" of the intellectual and artistic history. Hence, we decided to analyze three newspapers literary pages, La Presse, Le…

The aim of the present thesis is to study evidence of dandyism in the journal La Mode, revue des modes, galerie de moeurs, album des salons. Our focus is on the issues published in the years 1829 and 1830. We…