Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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L'Autre en Soi : l'identité entre deux mondes dans la Trilogie des dragons et le Dragon bleu de Robert Lepage
(2013-01-04)Robert Lepage’s play The Dragons’ Trilogy stretches across space and time, travelling through three generations and three major Canadian cities, each section named for a dragon in the Chinese game Mahjong. The Blue Dragon ... -
L'esthétique du métissage dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Henri Lopes
(2015-05-27)Literary critical discourse nowadays tends to classify African texts within global literature by drawing links among works through writing. Therefore, to achieve this purpose, African writers use forms and poetics of ... -
L'écriture contre l'oubli. Hétérogénéité et socialité dans l'oeuvre de Kateb Yacine.
(2014-09-02)Through a diachronic study of a large selection of writings (composed within a period of a half century), marked, for the most part, by the seal of a constitutive undetermined genre, this thesis attempts to grasp the rapport ... -
L'évolution des voix/voies de femmes dans leurs écrits sur l'Église aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
(2016-07-05)Feminist movements have allowed many female authors to become decisive and influential figures in literary history by studying their experiences, voices and forms of resistance. This thesis, however, focuses specifically ... -
l'Humour et l'ironie en litterature francophone subsaharienne. Une poétique du rire
(2008-04-02)Humour and Irony are identity markers that have long since been associated with Sub-Saharan francophone literary works. Intimately linked to Africa throughout the years, humour and irony have evolved hand to hand with ... -
L'impact du cinéma dans le roman francophone d'Afrique noire
(2010-07-26)In this thesis, I am interested in studying how African writers incorporate cinema in their works while focusing on the impact of Western and Asian films on the African public. My corpus includes writers such as Abdoulaye ... -
La Chine et les Chinois dans les romans français du XVIIIe siècle
(2013-03-25)Dans son livre Espaces lointains, espaces rêvés dans la fiction romanesque du Grand Siècle, Marie-Christine Pioffet termine l’examen du « pays de la soie » (159) par un constat que l’image de la Chine au XVIIe siècle est ... -
“La fédération impériale, voilà notre ennemie”: Honoré Mercier and Public Opinion on Imperial Federalism as Seen Through the Montreal Press, 1885-1893
This thesis examines Québec Premier Honoré Mercier's (1887-1891) critique of imperial federalism from 1885-1893 and its impact on public opinion in Montreal by analysing press coverage. Hostility to imperial federalism was ... -
A la recherche du soi perdu: etude phenomenologique de La derniere bande de Samuel Beckett
(2008-09-27)The goal of the present study is to examine the way in which Samuel Beckett, an artist whose work contributes also to philosophy, presents his metaphysical vision of the world through drama, where different plays represent ... -
La revenance dans le roman québécois au féminin après 1980
(2011-02-28)Cette étude prend pour son objet la figure de la revenante dans le roman québécois contemporain au féminin, laquelle émane d’une tradition de l’effacement du féminin, que ce soit sur le plan social (valorisation du sacrifice ... -
La récupération identitaire dans « Le ciel de Bay City » de Mavrikakis et « Le livre d’Emma » d’Agnant
(2012-04-24)Ce mémoire explore l’identité fragmentée dont souffrent les héroïnes dans Le ciel de Bay City, de Catherine Mavrikakis, et dans Le livre d’Emma, de Marie-Célie Agnant et établit que cette fragmentation prend source dans ... -
De la réparation à l'émancipation: la transposition du récit familial chez Marguerite Duras
(2009-09-24)With particular focus on the processes of rewriting and adaptation of works by Marguerite Duras, this study will examine the generic, stylistic, and thematic differences between the novel Un Barrage contre le Pacifique ... -
Labor Market Behavior of Sciences and Engineering Doctorates: Three Essays.
(2009-09-03)In this dissertation I study the labor market behavior of sciences and engineering (S&E) doctorates trained and employed in the US. The first essay is an empirical study of task-to-task transitions based on the Survey of ... -
Laboratory and Modelling Study Evaluating Thermal Remediation of Tetrachloroethene and Multi-Component NAPL Impacted Soil
(2013-10-02)In Situ Thermal Treatment (ISTT) is a candidate remediation technology for dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs). However, the relationships between gas production, gas flow, and contaminant mass removal during ISTT are ... -
Laboratory Characterization of Turbulent Hyporheic and Free Surface Flows Associated with Bars in Gravel Streams and Related Efforts to Improve Measurement Techniques
Bars and pool-riffle sequences are common occurrences in gravel streams, and a major driving force affecting the exchange of groundwater and free surface water in upper river reaches. Such topographic features induce ... -
A Laboratory Examination of Down-slope Bentonite Erosion in Geosynthetic Clay Liners
(2014-05-01)Geosynthetic Clay Liners (GCLs) are commonly paired with a geomembrane and used as part of a composite liner system for landfill barriers. Under some circumstances, leaving a composite geomembrane/geosynthetic clay liner ... -
Laboratory Investigation of Diluted Bitumen Trapping and Dissolution in Gravel
(2016-08-26)The Canadian economy is largely dependent on the distribution of large volumes of oil to domestic and international markets by a long network of pipelines. Unfortunately, accidents occur, and oil can leak or spill from ... -
Laboratory Investigation of Shear Behaviour in Rock Joints Under Varying Boundary Conditions
Discontinuities (joints, fractures, faults, bedding planes etc.) in rockmasses are an important mechanical component of a rockmass. In low to moderate in situ stress conditions where gravity-driven failure dominates, these ... -
A Laboratory of Social Policy: California, The New Right and the Gubernatorial Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1967-1975
The traditional historiographical narrative locates the revival of grassroots conservatism in the postwar decades, the subsequent reemergence of conservatives in mainstream American politics by the mid 1970s and the ... -
Laboratory Strength Testing of Argillaceous Limestone Under Varying Saturation, Scale, Loading Rate, and Confinement Conditions
The Deep Geological Repository (DGR) concept is the proposed solution for the long-term storage of nuclear waste in Canada. While site selection processes are currently underway for high-level waste storage, a low and ...