Les phrases se jettent en bas de mon corps ; suivi de L'expérience de la douleur dans l'oeuvre de Tania Langlais
This thesis, combining reasearch and creative writing, focuses on the experience of pain and how it takes shape in the language. The creative part, entitled Les phrases se jettent en bas de mon corps, proposes a narrative poetry in which a female enunciator lives, through the writing process, the pain and its impact on the various sensory systems: exterior perceptions (external perceptions, the five senses), proprioceptions (perceptions of body space) and interceptions (perceptions of the internal environment, how the body is felt). The reflexion of the cerebral body and the suffering corporal brain continues in the research section, where pain is approached as a vector of meaning in Tania Langlais' work. The three poetry books, Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'homme, La clarté s'installe comme un chat and Kennedy sait de quoi je parle are a poetic cycle where verses dialogue, resonate in a poem and in the same book, but also from one oeuvre to another. The analysis of their interaction, their disparities and similarities, allows us to better understand the particularity of the discourse of pain in Langlais. The various literary notions mentioned, such as the process of repetition, the question of enunciation and the representation of space, are supported by notions of neurobiology (Antonio Damasio, André Holley) and contemporary phenomenology (Mark Johnson and George Lakoff).
Tania Langlais creative writing narrative poetry study of Quebec literature pain experience