In Narratology and Text, Paul Perron examines the role that literature plays in the formation of French Canadian identity. Perron presents a narratological and semiotic analysis of canonical non-fictional and fictional texts from New France and Quebec, and illustrates how citizens of French Catholic origins living in Canada have constructed their identity by defining the self as part of a closed community founded in race, language, and religion, and as radically opposed to the other, constituted as an omnipresent heterogeneous threat to the homogenous group.
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In Narratology and Text, Paul Perron examines the role that literature plays in the formation of French Canadian identity. Perron presents a...
Very little has been done to show the explicit connection between the representation and the study of information despite the obvious relation that exists between them. The purpose of the conference held at Victoria College at the University of Toronto in October 1998 - titled Semiotics and the Information Sciences - was precisely to focus attention on this pivotal nexus, especially given that we now live in a so-called information age where it is becoming increasingly more difficult to distinguish between information itself and its interpretation. The invited papers appearing in this volume,...
Very little has been done to show the explicit connection between the representation and the study of information despite the obvious relation that ex...
This anthology of classic readings, in semiotic theory and practice is intended to provide supplementary resource designed to give a first-hand glimpse into a selection of those texts that have either laid the foundation of the semiotic theoretical edifice or else helped shape its contemporary form.
This anthology of classic readings, in semiotic theory and practice is intended to provide supplementary resource designed to give a first-hand glimps...
