Portrait de villes littéraires : Moncton et Ottawa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the cities of Moncton and Ottawa as "literary capitals," a concept developed by Pascale Casanova. While Moncton has managed to become the literary capital of Acadie, Ottawa, which resembles its Acadian counterpart in many ways, struggles to endorse this function for Francophone Ontario. Each part of this thesis examines the institutional role of these cities and identifies the writing strategies by which their authors have tried to turn them ‒ or not ‒ into literary capitals.The first chapter focuses on Moncton in Moncton mantra by Gérald Leblanc and in Petites difficultés d'existence by France Daigle, and the second, on Ottawa in La Côte de Sable by Daniel Poliquin and in King Edward by Michel Ouellette. The conclusion puts forward hypotheses as to why Ottawa has failed to become a literary capital in the way that Moncton has while reassessing the concept in the context of exiguity. By adopting, in order to distance themselves from the literature of Sudbury, an aesthetic that does not emphasis spatial representation, authors from Ottawa are unable to contribute to the literary prestige of their city. Ottawa remains nonetheless the institutional centre of Francophone Ontario, and a literary city.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".