A comparative study of secular accounts ot the apocalypse in four contemporary novels : -- Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos, The Road by Cormac McCarthy -- Nicolas Dickner's Tarmac, and Les larmes de saint Laurent by Dominique Fortier
Abstract: This thesis is a comparative analysis of the apocalypse as a theme in four novels, two American and two Quebecois. Originally a biblical myth, apocalyptic tales are comprised of three narrative aspects defined Bertrand Gervais as Crisis, Time, Meaning / Sense. The four novels are analyzed...
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Université de Sherbrooke
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6501 |