« Mondialiser » le roman : étude des rapports spatio-temporels dans «Neige noire» de Hubert Aquin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This master thesis offers a critical response to the political and nationalist reading of Hubert Aquin's novelistic work. It is based on his last novel, Neige noire (trad. Hamlet's Twin, 1974), which is considered by critics to be both the synthesis and the outcome of the long reflection on writing undertaken at the beginning of his literary career (Mocquais, Pelletier, Richard). The argument supporting this thesis is that Neige noire is carrying on an aesthetic project, started in Aquin's prior novel, L'Antiphonaire (1969), which, according to the terms he uses in the synopsis of this third novel, consists in the "globalization of the novel form." In this synopsis, he discusses bringing down the temporal and spatial frontiers of the novelistic form. Using this thinly described project as a starting point, this thesis offers a new reading of the aesthetic qualities of Neige noire. At the same time, it seeks to improve our critical comprehension of this aesthetic principle that seems to coincide with a turning point in his novelistic work. The three first chapters examine three different types of space that we encounter in the novel, namely the geographic space, the consciousness space and the cultural space, in their relation with time. Each chapter brings out the logic on which the ensuing break-up of the frontiers is based. The fourth chapter focuses on the central preoccupation of the novel: the passage of time, which becomes, in Aquin's work, a universal truth that touches all men, and so, possibly, the thematic corollary of the "globalization of the novelistic form". Finally, the conclusion reflects on the link between Neige noire and the place where the novel was written, the province of Quebec.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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".