Mindscapes of Montreal

蒙特利尔在法语魁北克小说中占有突出地位。这部分是由于它与魁北克其他地方的不同。作为最大的城市群，它是经济和文化中心，并且比该省其他任何地方都更加种族多样化。蒙特利尔在魁北克小说中也占据了几乎强迫性的存在，因为它与英语社会和商业精英的历史联系，他们的突出地位受到战后民族主义的挑战，被称为安静革命，流行于1960年开始。该研究探讨了蒙特利尔在当代法语魁北克小说中的表现方式;研究了城市中的某些地标如何以及为什么在不同的时刻具有特别的重要性。在此过程中，它考虑了文学景观如何与物质景观联系起来，以告知我们在日益城市化的世界中对城市的理解和体验。

Montreal features prominently in francophone Québécois fiction. This is due, in part, to its differences from other places within Quebec. As the largest urban conurbation, it is the economic and cultural centre, and is more ethnically diverse than anywhere else in the province. Montreal also occupies an almost obssessive presence in the Québécois novel due to its historical association with an anglophone social and business elite, whose prominence was challenged by the post-war nationalism known as the Quiet Revolution, popularly dated as beginning in 1960. The research examines the ways in which Montreal is represented in the contemporary francophone Québécois novel; looking at how and why certain landmarks in the city take on particular importance at various moments in time. In so doing, it considers how literary landscapes connect with material ones in order to inform our understanding and experiencing of the urban in an increasingly urbanised world.