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Fictionality has too often been considered a characteristic exclusively of literary discourse. Regarding fictionality as a potentiality of the grammar of language, the author does not divorce literary pragmatics from the pragmatics of ordinary language. His study of a diversified corpus (advertisements, newspaper articles, political and literary texts) gives rise to a unifying description of hypothetical sentences. He also examines some reputedly marginal uses of the French imparfait.
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"Post-modern" and "post-modernist" are often confused and undifferentiatedly feed the academic vulgate. What if one took these termes for what they really mean? What if one read them as covering contradictions and confusions? What if one preferred the analysis of precise texts to such neologisms used as a sort of waiting station? Wouldn't one, then, realize that critical onomathurgists only use them to hide the vacuity and anguish of our culture, as vineleaves of compound adjectives which it may not, after all, be indispensable to "explain to children", as Lyotard once proposed?
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For many composers, remaining in the secluded world of the studio allows them to completely internalize their ideas, to control every element, and to realize their exact musical imagination. While Normandeau is certainly most known for his fixed acousmatic works, he does not restrict himself to the closed and controlled world of the electronic music studio. He embraces process, change, and adaptation, in this case adapting the acousmatic work Le renard et la rose (1995) for four singers, six percussionists, and electroacoustics in Baobabs (2012). This article first contextualizes vocal onomatopoeias in 20th-century compositions and Normandeau's output. Following an overview of the Onomatopoeias cycle and Baobabs, the analysis is divided into rhythm, tonal and formal relationships, and texture and timbre. The article concludes with a reflection on the fundamental differences between the two works, particularly as they relate to control and the composer/performer binary.
Keywords: acousmatique, onomatopée, Le renard et la rose, Baobabs, adaptation, voix, Robert Normandeau, acousmatic, onomatopoeia, Le renard et la rose, Baobabs, adaptation, voice, Robert Normandeau
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Interactive creative works are a new art form made possible by the new technological means created by the combination of microcomputers and laser disks. The role of the "spectactor" (spectator/actor) is examined from the standpoint of the theories of Morin and Metz. The importance of a "contactile" (contact/tactile) and a new concept of editing are discussed.
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One of the most important aspects of film reception in the post-Hollywood period concerns the new «forms of mediation» that occupy the social space that surrounds contemporary cinema. Current superproductions have now become film events in themselves, mainly as a result of the combined efforts of various forces of mediation which track and program spectatorial receptivity. Thus behind the spectator's act of film attendance, there lies a hidden series of appeals, urgings and desires unleashed by media forces. It is one thing to understand the profile of the film public, but it is another to grasp the forms of mediation by which that public has been interpellated. This is a topic which requires investigation. In this article, four forms of mediation are analyzed: seduction by social mediation, by economic mediation, by psychological mediation, and by interpersonal relationship.
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As an interpretative activity, the critic suggests a lecture, more or less subjective, more or less affirmative, but always oriented toward the inscription of a knowledge. On enonciative point of view, it suppose series of relations - between the subject and the object, between the enonciator and the lector, between the text and its comments - determined by the rhetoric strategy and the search of veridiction. What happens when either one of these relations is volontarily disturbed ? The study of the enonciative figures who appears in a set of critic text published in 1990 shows an inflexion of the critic pact, who touch the referent's conceptualization, the posture of the subject and his cognitive aim.
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The innovative aspect of Réjean Ducharme's work is based, in most part, on strategies using and re-using the past which put the emphasis on nostalgia. This work is then situated in a historic perspective and the strategies are questionning its position in the contemporary litterature in dialectic terms : Ducharme's writing tends to serve as an interface and to fusion Euro-American perspectives into a distinct Quebec specificity. His rejuvenation of formal past values sets his work, by means of a kind of a return to "before modernism", in the stream of a return of nostalgia.