LEADER 04088nam 2200709 450 001 9910816578403321 005 20230912172637.0 010 $a1-4426-8388-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442683884 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000837 035 $a(OCoLC)288146540 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226424 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000377940 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11230661 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377940 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10351381 035 $a(PQKB)10351924 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00603587 035 $a(DE-B1597)465150 035 $a(OCoLC)944177237 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442683884 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257961 035 $a(OCoLC)958565517 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/z9j62d 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/7/422079 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672287 035 $a(OCoLC)992521877 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105575 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3258022 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000837 100 $a20160926h19961996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSemiotics and the modern Quebec novel $ea Greimassian analysis of The?riault's Agaguk /$fPaul Perron 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1996. 210 4$dİ1996 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 1 $aToronto studies in semiotics 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-0926-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. The Semiotics of the Novel -- 3. Agaguk: A Synopsis -- 4. Segmentation -- 5. The Canonic Relation -- 6. Actantial Topology -- 7. System of Modalities -- 8. Actantial Transformations -- 9. System of Modalities and Sequential Order -- 10. Conclusion. 330 8 $aPerron 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. 330 $aThe most popular novel in Quebec since the Second World War, Yves Theriault's Agaguk was published just before the Quiet Revolution, a period of major political and cultural transformation that radically altered Quebec society at the beginning of the 1960s. In this original socio-semiotic reading of the novel in translation, inspired by A.J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics, Paul Perron examines the Inuit setting and characters of Agaguk as metaphors for Quebec society. Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel is one of the few semiotic analyses to deal with an entire novel, and illustrates the heuristic value of this complex methodology with respect to long prose texts in English. 410 0$aToronto studies in semiotics 606 $aSemiotics and literature$zQue?bec (Province) 607 $aQue?bec (Province)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSemiotics and literature 676 $a843 700 $aPerron$b Paul$0737457 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816578403321 996 $aSemiotics and the modern Quebec novel$93920826 997 $aUNINA