A Context for Conversation?: Reading Jeffrey Moore's The Memory Artists as Anglo-Quebec Literature
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Abstract
Quebec's English-language writers' deeper integration into, and often greater identification with, the cultural and political life of their francophone milieu has led some critics to speak of an Anglo-Quebec literature . The appropriateness of the designation has been contested, however, by those for whom la litterature quebecoise is necessarily francophone, and by those for whom Anglo-Quebec either excludes Canadian or only designates writing explicitly responsive to local concerns. After reviewing definitions of Anglo-Quebec literature in terms of geography, theme, or form, the first part of this essay proposes a conceptualization in terms of ad hoc conversations between English-language works and other anglophone and francophone Quebec writing. The second part sketches such a conversation, using Jeffrey Moore's novel The Memory Artists as a test case. To the extent that a reading of this work illuminates, and is illuminated by, readings of such novels as Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes a Papineau as well as Robert Majzels's Hellman's Scrapbook , there is pragmatic justification for thinking of Moore's work as belonging to the category of Anglo-Quebec literature. Abstract: Une plus grande integration des ecrivains anglophones du Quebec dans la vie culturelle et politique du milieu francophone ainsi que, souvent, leur plus grande identification avec ce milieu, ont pousse certains critiques a parler d'une « litterature anglo-quebecoise ». Le caractere approprie de cette designation a ete toutefois conteste par ceux pour qui la litterature quebecoise est necessairement francophone, ainsi que par ceux pour qui le qualificatif d'anglo-quebecois exclut celui de canadien ou designent seulement des recits qui visent explicitement des problemes locaux. Apres avoir examine les definitions de la litterature anglo-quebecoise en termes de geographie, de theme ou de forme, la premiere partie de cet article propose une conceptualisation de conversations ponctuelles entre les œuvres de langue anglaise et d'autres ecrits du Quebec anglophone et francophone. La deuxieme partie de l'article donne un apercu d'une telle conversation en se servant du roman de Jeffrey Moore intitule Les Artistes de la memoire comme exemple. En supposant que la lecture de ce roman fait mieux comprendre et est rendue plus intelligible par la lecture d'autres romans, comme Les Tetes a Papineau de Jacques Godbout et Le Cahier d'Hellman de Robert Majzels, il existe une justification pragmatique pour designer le roman de Jeffrey Moore comme faisant partie de la litterature anglo-quebecoise.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.043 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".