Semiotics and the modern Quebec novel: a Greimassian analysis of Thériault's Agaguk
Perron distinguishes the operation of multiple signs in Agaguk and establishes a narrative grammar, based on an actional and cognitive semiotic theory, that can be applied to a text as complex as a novel. For this purpose he redefines the concept of the sign and introduces a semiotics of passions th...
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1996
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| Zusammenfassung: | Perron distinguishes the operation of multiple signs in Agaguk and establishes a narrative grammar, based on an actional and cognitive semiotic theory, that can be applied to a text as complex as a novel. For this purpose he redefines the concept of the sign and introduces a semiotics of passions that conditions the characters' actions. All of this takes place within the context of a semiotics of the subject, where the value systems that motivate the collective must be overcome, negated, and even eradicated by the individual subject before a new moral and sexual identity can come into being, independent of the traditional body politic. Perron's Greimassian analysis of Agaguk functions as both a demonstration of the workings of that text and an example of socio-semiotic analysis, while situating literary semiotics within the larger framework of linguistic theory and literary studies |
| Abstract: | The most popular novel in Quebec since the Second World War, Yves Theriault's Agaguk was published just before the Quiet Revolution, a period of major political and cultural transformation that radically altered Quebec society at the beginning of the 1960s. In this original socio-semiotic reading of the novel in translation, inspired by A. J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics, Paul Perron examines the Inuit setting and characters of Agaguk as metaphors for Quebec society. Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel is one of the few semiotic analyses to deal with an entire novel, and illustrates the heuristic value of this complex methodology with respect to long prose texts in English |
| Umfang: | IX, 170 S. graph. Darst. |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
1 Introduction 3
Historiography and the Novel 4
The Historical Novel: Les anciens Canadiens 5
The Agrarian Novel: Maria Chapdelaine 7
The Urban Novel: Bonheur d occasion 11
The Wilderness Novel: Agaguk 17
2 The Semiotics of the Novel 19
The Semiotic Project 19
Literary Semiotics 20
An Attempt at a Method 21
Linguistics and Semiotics 21
Semiological Systems 22
Semiotics and Discourse Analysis 24
Paris School Semiotics 26
The Semantic Universe 28
Semiotics and the Social Sciences 29
Towards a Socio-Semiotics 31
3 Agaguk A Synopsis 33
4 Segmentation 36
5 The Canonic Relation 38
Morphology of the Modalities of /doing/ and /being/ 40
viii Contents
Objects of Value 41
Practical Objects of Value 41
/goods/ as Objects of Value 42
Primary /goods/ 43
Secondary /goods/ 47
Narrative Programs 52
Mythical Objects of Value 55
Monogamy and Polygamy 56
Exclusivity and Promiscuity 58
Life and Sexuality 58
Procreation and Sexuality 60
The Subject and Sexuality 62
Love and Sexuality 64
6 Actantial Topology 68
The Portrait 68
Actantial Topoi 74
Actantial Topoi: The Physical Environment 75
Actantial Topoi: The Fauna 80
Actantial Topoi: The Social Environment 84
Actantial Topoi: The Environment of the Couple 87
7 System of Modalities 92
Power: Social 95
Power: Practical 96
Power: Mythical 97
Knowledge: Practical 98
Knowledge: Instinctive 100
Knowledge: Social 102
Knowledge: Mythical 103
Will: Social 105
Will: Individual-Intransitive 106
Will: Individual-Transitive 107
Duty 109
8 Actantial Transformations 113
Leadership: The Chief and the Social Contract 113
Leadership: The Chief and Self-Interest 116
The Couple: Subjection and Emancipation 118
The Couple: Emancipation and the Family 119
Contents ix
The Couple: Paternity, Instinct, and Knowledge 121
The Couple: Woman, Instinct, and Knowledge 122
The Couple: Man, Knowlege, and Instinct 123
The Confirmation of the Couple 125
9 System of Modalities and Sequential Order 128
10 Conclusion 135
notes 143
GLOSSARY 155
BIBLIOGRAPHY 159
INDEX 165
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