L’imagination environnementale dans la littérature francophone du Québec au 20e siècle. De l’écriture-nature au nature writing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The environmental imagination, understood as the ability to imagine and represent the environment, is undergoing a major transformation. In this era of ecological crisis, changes are observed across all disciplines, including literature. Faced with shaken certainties about the future, the idea of nature takes on a new meaning. The relationship of human beings to the world is questioned. A body of work has expressed, for several decades now, a new awareness about the different environments in which texts, characters, and non-human elements are anchored. In the United States, these texts are called nature writing, a concept that is beginning to appear in Quebec literature. In this thesis, I propose to trace the development of an awareness about nature in Francophone writings from Quebec. When and how does such an awareness, accompanied by new concerns, arise? In what forms? How and when does nature writing appears in Québec? Inspired by ecocriticism, the history of ideas, and literary history, I explore these questions drawing on a corpus in which issues of the relationship to nature are central. To do this, I delve into the writings of Brother Marie-Victorin, Saint-Denys Garneau, Gabrielle Roy, Pierre Morency, and Robert Lalonde. My analysis of their works demonstrates that interest in nature in Quebec literature begins to change in the 1930s, first through the lenses of natural sciences, then through personal prose. Authors turn to hybrid genres, challenging established literary categories, to deepen questions of nature and culture, in unclassifiable works that combine scientific observation, journal writing, epistolary, narrative, notes, and various degrees of autobiography to reflect on humans’ relationship to the world. In doing so, they develop a style that I will call écriture-nature. These findings will help outline and tell the story of the environmental imagination in Quebec literature
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 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".