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AbstractThis exploratory article develops the notion of textual economy, to investigate the place of statistical representations in practices of knowledge production. Nineteenth century Canadian state agencies generated massive quantities of statistical information. Yet, techniques of graphic representation were largely absent from official state papers and reports. The article investigates the discursive and textual strategies adopted by state servants to draw on statistical information in the absence of graphic representation.
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AbstractFatalism, present throughout the works of Michel Tremblay, and particularly in the Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal, is considered here as both a philosophical and a religious attitude whose discursive figures and effects will be identified and analysed. Based on supernatural that the renewal of Moires myth develops throughout the narrative cycle, fatalism in Tremblay's novels does not present character's fate as necessity, fixed forever as it is the case for the Greeks, but rather as contingency and chance that is impossible to know or to predict. Furthermore, the idea of fate is not confined to the realm of the individual but it has a collective dimension that refers to the characters' ethnical and national allegiance. Appearing allegorically as knitting goddesses, the idea of fate also operates on a religious dimension, that overlays a cult of feminity. Finally, fatalism infers a certain conception of writing, in which the writer applies the rule of destiny to that which he narrates, thus assuming himself the fatality that the Moires converted to knitters are the literary figures in Tremblay's novels.
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SUMMARYThis study examines in detail the dialectical process which has brought extensive changes in the governing and distribution structure of psychiatric services in Quebec's recent past. It is a study of shifting groups in positions of power, of conflicting ideas and plans for action, of tactics and strategies, of insurgence and invasion, of dynamism and conservatisn. However, in these debates over territories and management, the patient, in whose name beatuful structural blueprints are designed and defended, appears to be the one who least benefits.