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For the outside observer, the situation of OLMC generates two types of assessment. First, the range of rights gained and of measures put in place make Canada's policy on official languages one of the most advanced in the world. Secondly, by not integrating the political and economic dimensions in its programs, the same policy puts Francophone communities in a contradiction: what purpose and collective involvement can be fed without political power? What can the functionality of a linguistic and cultural empowerment be without an autonomous social and economic dynamic? The answer to these issues is not so much that of the classical pathway “independence or assimilation” as a reflection on the place of OLMC in a society that adopts, often blindly, the materialistic and individualistic prerogatives of the neo-liberal agenda. Within a Canada that has regularly been able to give constructive answers to the demands of its singular components, innovative propositions based on the organic relationship between autonomy and empowerment should break through.
Keywords: minorités francophones, rapport organique entre autonomie et émancipation, francophone minorities, organic relationship between autonomy and empowerment
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Éditions de l'Oeuf, founded in 1971 by Yrénée Bélanger and Guy M. Pressault, had as its goal to be at the service of book object literature. This underground editorial production, which was part of the Québec counterculture movement at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, contributed to a certain esthetic renewal of the poetry book based on the conceptual principles of détournement. Through an editorial policy advocating the use of the book object, and through various strategies to set aside, even abolish, cultural hierarchies, the publishers challenged the concept of what constitutes literature and a book. Taking as its starting point the book objects produced by Éditions de l'Oeuf that are in the heritage collection of artists' books and bibliophile books of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, this article analyzes the publishers' position on literature, and the publishing house's contribution to a counterculture esthetics of the poetry book. The objective is twofold: underscore the originality of Éditions de l'Oeuf's little-known production and discuss some of the means used by the publisher-authors to challenge literature and its principal medium—the book.
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AbstractAllegory is one of the most important tools at the disposal of the painter who wishes to communicate meaning through his paintings. The success and decline of allegory in painting parallels the changing fate of the verbal allegory, which fell into disregard with the advent of Romanticism. Later, just as language cut its ties to the referent at the end of the xixth century, painting moved away from the necessity of representation in the xxth century. Today, in the age of the " videosphere ", images of mass consumption are searching for ways to express symbols as unequivocally as possible. However, the modern allegory has had to invent new methods of expression in order to transcend languages and cultures.
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AbstractInteractive forms are more and more present in our culture (video games, fictional hypertexts, combinatory literary works), and they call into question our usual assumptions and interpretative habits regarding narratives. Facing this situation, several theorists have opposed in a radical fashion interactivity and narrativity, as one would oppose the experience of action and its representation. While recognizing that such a position is operative, we want to envision the relationship between interactive and narrative forms beyond a simple antagonism. Using narrative semiotics as a cornerstone, we will reconsider recent new media criticism, reexamine concepts of interactivity, simulation and fictional world, and try to bring together, using the practice of reading as a critical perspective, represented action, simulated action and interpretative action.
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This article proposes a reinterpretation of the concept of “ iconicity ” based on a detailed analysis of the iconic networks described by Aristotle in De Anima and “ De Sensu ”. Using the propositions of the school of “ tensive ” semiotics, we will argue that far from being the result of arbitrary homologation executed by a conceptual framework (Greimas) or of a coding process replacing perception by sensory substitutes (Eco), iconicity is the result of an aesthetic finalization of a sensory process that starts with a stabilization of a primary sensation. This stabilization opens an egocentric perspective giving a coherence to all sensory data by means of what Aristotle calls koinè aisthêsis. Following the text of Aristotle, we will show that this coherence can be obtained in four different ways.
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