Une certaine Amérique à lire : la beat generation et la littérature québécoise
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the inscription of the Beat Generation in Quebec literature. It is not a study of the movement's reception in Quebec when it emerged in the fifties, but rather one of its further reappropriation by Quebec writers. To read this Quebec contemporary corpus necessitates a thorough knowledge of the Beat Generation's writings and of the studies on the movement and its writers. Therefore, I will begin by outlining the personal history and literary approach of the main Beat Generation writers, who never wrote a manifest. Then, I will proceed with the analysis of the Quebec corpus by using the main themes of the movement, the textual inscriptions, citations, as well as explicit or hidden references in characters' names or places. I will also establish affiliations between characters from both corpus. This, of course, by staying as close as possible to the texts, in order to analyse the Beat Generation in Quebec literature. In the first chapter, I will study what links writers such as Claude Peloquin, Lucien Francoeur, Jean-Paul Daoust and Raoul Duguay to the Beat Generation. Then, I will study the relation of three Quebec writers with Jack Kerouac: Victor-Levy Beaulieu, Gilles Archambault and Jean-Noel Pontbriand are inspired by him and use his work and his biography to talk about themselves. Finally, I will study writings of authors such as Rejean Ducharme, Jacques Poulin, Dany Laferriere, Louis Hamelin and Michel Vezina, who are interested in certain elements of the Beat Generation and who have integrated them in their writings. My research relies on the hypothesis that a group of writers from the United States of America had a considerable influence on Quebec literature, giving it a certain American Characteristic. Therefore, by reading Quebec corpus in relation with the Beat Generation movement, I am studying "l'americanite quebecoise". The purpose of this thesis is to show that America is not only a continent where one can travel, it is actually a group of texts to read, that are written in relation to each other and that have roots in a common north American imaginary, territory, history and intellectual nomadism.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.042 | 0.002 |
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".