Literary Borderlessness and Crossings: Marie HéLène Poitras’s Early Fictions
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Abstract
Marie Hélène Poitras, a contemporary author from Quebec, has published several works of fiction. Her versatility has enabled her to develop an original and thoroughly literary fiction. However, her narratives have not yet, to my knowledge, received any academic attention. My article aims at reviewing the significance, and particularity, of Poitras’s oeuvre for contemporary francophone literature, especially as developed in her fist two publications: Soudain le Minotaure and La Mort de Mignonne . Thematically and aesthetically, her writing borrows from international literature, as well as artistic forms as diverse as popular music and visual art. Consequently, I argue that Poitras first two books build on borderlessness and/or boundary crossing. The first section will be devoted to Soudain le Minotaure and will explore how Poitras crosses cultural and aesthetic borders, particularly with her protagonists’ relationship with foreign cultures and her use of synesthesia. The second part will focus on La Mort de Mignonne and its aesthetic borderlessness, especially through the use of intertextuality with fairy tales as well as fables and intermediality with popular music.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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