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Sieve Reading Beyond the Minor

Acadian France Daigle’s Pour sûr

by (author) Matthew Cormier

series edited by Dean Irvine

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2023
Category
Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading, Natural Language Processing

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776639956
    Publish Date
    Feb 2023
    List Price
    $41.95

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Cormier takes up France Daigle’s postmodernist Pour sûr (2011), a Governor General’s Award-winning novel that depicts the day-to-day lives of a group of Acadians in Moncton, New Brunswick, over the course of 1728 fragments that belong to various aspects of Acadian culture, as a case study for a new methodology that aims to offer innovative means of studying minor literatures in Canada.
First, it does so by distant reading the novel’s quantifiable aesthetics—fragments, intertextuality, self-reflexivity—using digital tools, with data visualizations that show hidden patterns and clusters indicative of an unconscious cultural memory; second, it close reads these patterns and clusters alongside the author’s self-reflexive interjections as sites of conflict, sites that affectively construct their depiction of Acadian identity.

About the authors

Matthew Cormier is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Université de Moncton.

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Dean Irvine is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University and director of the SSHRC-funded Editing Modernism in Canada project. He is the author of Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916-1956 (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and editor of Archive For Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay (Arsenal Pulp, 1998), Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924-61 (Vehicule, 2003), and The Canadian Modernists Meet (University of Ottawa Press, 2005). His forthcoming work includes a new monograph, Variant Readings: Editing Canadian Literature in English, under contract to McGill-Queen's University Press, and a two-volume critical edition, co-edited with Robert G. May, of F.R. Scott's complete poems and translations. He is a general editor, with Zailig Pollock and Sandra Djwa, of the multivolume print edition and digital archive of the collected works of P.K. Page and the director and English-language general editor of the University of Ottawa Press's Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de littérature canadienne.

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