Andrée Mercier
Department of Literature, Theater and Cinema
Laval University
Canada
Biography
Andrée Mercier's recent research focuses on contemporary narrativity and, more specifically, the issues of problematical narration, likelihood and narrative authority in the novel. One component of this research addresses in a comparative perspective the narrative literatures of Quebec and France. Andrée Mercier has published several studies on contemporary Quebec narrative from a generic, poetic and institutional point of view. She was a member of the ASTER group dedicated to the semiotic analysis of religious and literary texts from 1992 to 2009 and participated in two books, one devoted to the vocation narrative and the other to the representation of the deluge. Finally, she has done several works on the work of the writer Jacques Ferron, including a book about the narrative uncertainty of his stories.
Research Interest
Corpus and genres: French and Quebec literature, novels and contemporary stories, the work of Jacques Ferron. Approaches: greimassian semiotics, narratology (theory of narrative forms). Topics: verisimilitude and narrative authority, figure of sacrifice in religious and literary texts, genre of narrative.
