La vie la nuit. Robert Élie et l'esthétique catholique de «La Relève», entre modernité et antimodernité (1934-1950)
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Abstract
This thesis aims to explain the complex and sometimes paradoxical relations between the defense of modern aesthetic manifestations and a fierce opposition to many aspects of modernity among writers associated with La Relève and La Nouvelle Relève (Montreal, 1934-1948). While the aesthetic reflection of these authors is the principal object of this thesis, their philosophical, political and religious positions—inseparable from their aesthetics—are also widely discussed. The first chapter is devoted to the European thinkers, from whom La Relève draws its main inspiration—including Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier and Daniel-Rops. The rest of the thesis concentrates on the writings of Robert Élie, a regular contributor and member of the journal's founding team. The chapters dedicated to Robert Élie allow us to i) put forth the values underlying his aesthetics and specify the part they play in Élie's "political" thought; ii) follow the evolution of his relationship with formal modernity and study his ways of coping with the thorny and unavoidable problem of the morality of art; and iii) evaluate, through a reading of Élie's first novel, short stories and essays, how he sought to apply these aesthetic principles to his own creative writing. It appears that Élie's fervent Catholicism and the anti-modern aspects of his thought that ensue may have fostered his approval of modern poetic forms and of non-figurative painting, while causing some uneasiness with regards to the novel as a literary form. This was partly overcome in his novel, La fin des songes, published in 1950.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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.
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