Introducing Jean Bessière —Beyond and Around Paradigms —A New Cognition of Literary Work
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Abstract
The mosaic of essays published in this issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Litterature Comparee treats the critical work of the French comparatist and scholar, Jean Bessiere. All the essays present various aspects of Bessiere's critical work ever since the 1990 publication of the first text, Dire le litteraire, of a long series, the last volume of which, Prindples de la theorie litteraire, appeared in 2005. The critical project of Jean Bessiere may be defined as a systematic exploration of the cognitive process related to literature. Thanks to Bessiere's theorizations, anyone dealing with literature will gain a better understanding of facts. In fact, what makes Jean Bessiere's work so striking is a systematic and progressive approach to literature understood as a coherent yet fragmentable reality. Over the past few years Jean Bessiere has published a series of books dedicated to literature. They constitute a rethinking of multiple critical and theoretical problems. Their tides are quite clear: To Say the Literary (Dire le litteraire), L'enigmatidte de la litterature (Enigmatility of Literature), La litterature et sa rhetorique (Literature and Its Rhetoric), Quel statutpour la litterature? (What Status for Literature?), Principes de la theorie litteraire (Principles of Literary Theory). Towards the end of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, we can better grasp various developments of the theoretical discourse on literature. In that context of belatedness, Jean Bessiere's vision of what he calls the literary may be seen as a remarkable enrichment of the cognitive horizons of literature. To account for the innovation, originality and contribution of Jean Bessiere's analyses, I feel that the cognition of the work is a good starting point.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".