Paul Perron
Biographic Data
| ID | 958722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Perron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Perron |
| SIGNATURE | PERRON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2428-9278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Moving beyond the sanctuary paradigm
This article outlines historical shifts in US and Canadian space policies using the sanctuary-contested policy framework. It highlights how sanctuary policies were born out of necessity rather than the pursuit of a peaceful global commons; they were never intended to, and did not, prevent the militarization and weaponization of space. The paper then describes challenges to global space governance and argues that diplomacy will not prevent conflic…
Inédit 2 (1984)
This lecture delivered at Victoria College, University of Toronto, concentrates on defining the status to be accorded to any universals. Underlining his desire that semiotics avoid epistemological dissensions and focus instead on establishing its effectiveness, Greimas recalls that he has adopted an “agnostic” constructivist stance and thus declined to affirm whether universals exist in the world or only in the mind. Following Hjelmslev’s middle …
Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel
Prelims
Relire le Fou d'Elsa de Louis Aragon
Dans ce travail nous explorons l'articulation, le déploiement, le timbre, le grain, ou encore la polyphonie des voix multiples qui ponctuent et orchestrent ce long et complexe poème de plus de quatre cent cinquante pages, couvrant plus de cinq siècles d'histoire et traitant de diverses cultures d'origine européenne et arabe inextricablement imbriquées. Bien que le concept de polyphonie doive beaucoup à Bakhtine qui s'en est surtout servi dans ses…
On re-reading Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
La recherche litteraire
The Social Sciences
A Doxological History of Literature
Paris School Semiotics I
Toward a semiotics of manipulation
Introduction
Julien Greimas's theories mainly through the commentaries of critics,1 or the numerous more or less well-founded applications that often consist in simply projecting the elementary structure of signification (the semiotic square) on various cultural and social objects. However, in the last few years most of A. J. Greimas's major texts have appeared, or are about to appear, in English translation,2 finally giving critics direct access to his work …
The Piece of String
T WAS MARKET DAY, and on all the country roads around Goderville the peasants and their wives were making their way toward the town. The men walked slowly, throwing their whole bodies forward at every step of their long crooked legs. They were deformed from pushing the plow, which makes their left shoulders higher and bends their figures sideways; from reaping the grain, when they have to spread their legs so as to keep on their feet; from all th…
The Veridiction Contract
Traduction de « Le contrat de veridiction » paru dans « Man and World », 1980, 13, pp. 345-355. 1. Plausibilite et veracite. 2. Le contrat social. 3. La verification et sa crise. 4. La manipulation discursive. 5. Verite et certitude. PP. 661-677, D. MADDOX : « Veridiction, Verification, Verifactions : Reflections on Methodology »
Greimas's Narrative Grammar
WHAT IS INTERESTING about Greimas's narrative grammar is the way it constructs, degree by degree, the necessary conditions for narrativity, starting from a logical model which is the least complex possible and which, initially, includes no chronological import at all. The question is whether, in the attempt to arrive at the structure of those stories which are in fact produced by oral and written traditions, the author, in the successive addition…
Figurative Semiotics and the Semiotics of the Plastic Arts
enough. It amounts to the postface for a collective work edited by Jean-Marie Floch and entitled De l'abstrait au figuratif, which for technical reasons beyond our control was never published. Thus it would be advisable to read it both as an anticipation of Floch's Petites mythologies de l'oeil et de l'esprit and a wellintentioned interpretation of Felix Thfirlemann's Paul Klee.1 The present text, which goes back some time and is perhaps a bit ou…
Description and Narrativity
EFORE UNDERTAKING the analysis of textual units we can identify as descriptive we must first of all attempt to situate them within the entire narrative and also distinguish them from other discursive units by using the most objective identification criteria possible. It is indeed desirable that formal segmentation procedures progressively replace our intuitive comprehension of the text and its articulations. To do this it would seem appropriate t…
On Meaning
On Narrativity
Reflections on Balzacian Models of Representation
I tell you that La Bataille is an impossible book. In it, I undertake to make you aware of all the horrors and all the beauties of a battlefield; my battle is Essling, Essling with all its consequences. A cold man sitting in his armchair must see the countryside, the irregularities of the ground, the masses of men, the strategic events, the Danube, the bridges; must admire the details and the whole of that combat; must hear the artillery; must be…
On Language and Writing in Gerard Bessette's Fiction
Le système des objets dans Eugénie Grandet
Le signifiant du personnage dans Eugénie Grandet
Figurative Semiotics and the Semiotics of the Plastic Arts
enough. It amounts to the postface for a collective work edited by Jean-Marie Floch and entitled De l'abstrait au figuratif, which for technical reasons beyond our control was never published. Thus it would be advisable to read it both as an anticipation of Floch's Petites mythologies de l'oeil et de l'esprit and a wellintentioned interpretation of Felix Thfirlemann's Paul Klee.1 The present text, which goes back some time and is perhaps a bit ou…
On Meaning
The Veridiction Contract
Traduction de « Le contrat de veridiction » paru dans « Man and World », 1980, 13, pp. 345-355. 1. Plausibilite et veracite. 2. Le contrat social. 3. La verification et sa crise. 4. La manipulation discursive. 5. Verite et certitude. PP. 661-677, D. MADDOX : « Veridiction, Verification, Verifactions : Reflections on Methodology »
On Narrativity
Greimas's Narrative Grammar
WHAT IS INTERESTING about Greimas's narrative grammar is the way it constructs, degree by degree, the necessary conditions for narrativity, starting from a logical model which is the least complex possible and which, initially, includes no chronological import at all. The question is whether, in the attempt to arrive at the structure of those stories which are in fact produced by oral and written traditions, the author, in the successive addition…
Description and Narrativity
EFORE UNDERTAKING the analysis of textual units we can identify as descriptive we must first of all attempt to situate them within the entire narrative and also distinguish them from other discursive units by using the most objective identification criteria possible. It is indeed desirable that formal segmentation procedures progressively replace our intuitive comprehension of the text and its articulations. To do this it would seem appropriate t…
Reflections on Balzacian Models of Representation
I tell you that La Bataille is an impossible book. In it, I undertake to make you aware of all the horrors and all the beauties of a battlefield; my battle is Essling, Essling with all its consequences. A cold man sitting in his armchair must see the countryside, the irregularities of the ground, the masses of men, the strategic events, the Danube, the bridges; must admire the details and the whole of that combat; must hear the artillery; must be…
Le signifiant du personnage dans Eugénie Grandet
Le signifiant du personnage dans Eugénie Grandet
Le système des objets dans Eugénie Grandet
On Language and Writing in Gerard Bessette's Fiction
Reflections on Balzacian Models of Representation
I tell you that La Bataille is an impossible book. In it, I undertake to make you aware of all the horrors and all the beauties of a battlefield; my battle is Essling, Essling with all its consequences. A cold man sitting in his armchair must see the countryside, the irregularities of the ground, the masses of men, the strategic events, the Danube, the bridges; must admire the details and the whole of that combat; must hear the artillery; must be…
Toward a semiotics of manipulation
Introduction
Julien Greimas's theories mainly through the commentaries of critics,1 or the numerous more or less well-founded applications that often consist in simply projecting the elementary structure of signification (the semiotic square) on various cultural and social objects. However, in the last few years most of A. J. Greimas's major texts have appeared, or are about to appear, in English translation,2 finally giving critics direct access to his work …
The Piece of String
T WAS MARKET DAY, and on all the country roads around Goderville the peasants and their wives were making their way toward the town. The men walked slowly, throwing their whole bodies forward at every step of their long crooked legs. They were deformed from pushing the plow, which makes their left shoulders higher and bends their figures sideways; from reaping the grain, when they have to spread their legs so as to keep on their feet; from all th…
The Veridiction Contract
Traduction de « Le contrat de veridiction » paru dans « Man and World », 1980, 13, pp. 345-355. 1. Plausibilite et veracite. 2. Le contrat social. 3. La verification et sa crise. 4. La manipulation discursive. 5. Verite et certitude. PP. 661-677, D. MADDOX : « Veridiction, Verification, Verifactions : Reflections on Methodology »
Greimas's Narrative Grammar
WHAT IS INTERESTING about Greimas's narrative grammar is the way it constructs, degree by degree, the necessary conditions for narrativity, starting from a logical model which is the least complex possible and which, initially, includes no chronological import at all. The question is whether, in the attempt to arrive at the structure of those stories which are in fact produced by oral and written traditions, the author, in the successive addition…
Figurative Semiotics and the Semiotics of the Plastic Arts
enough. It amounts to the postface for a collective work edited by Jean-Marie Floch and entitled De l'abstrait au figuratif, which for technical reasons beyond our control was never published. Thus it would be advisable to read it both as an anticipation of Floch's Petites mythologies de l'oeil et de l'esprit and a wellintentioned interpretation of Felix Thfirlemann's Paul Klee.1 The present text, which goes back some time and is perhaps a bit ou…
Description and Narrativity
EFORE UNDERTAKING the analysis of textual units we can identify as descriptive we must first of all attempt to situate them within the entire narrative and also distinguish them from other discursive units by using the most objective identification criteria possible. It is indeed desirable that formal segmentation procedures progressively replace our intuitive comprehension of the text and its articulations. To do this it would seem appropriate t…
On Meaning
On Narrativity
Paris School Semiotics I
The Social Sciences
A Doxological History of Literature
La recherche litteraire
On re-reading Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
Relire le Fou d'Elsa de Louis Aragon
Dans ce travail nous explorons l'articulation, le déploiement, le timbre, le grain, ou encore la polyphonie des voix multiples qui ponctuent et orchestrent ce long et complexe poème de plus de quatre cent cinquante pages, couvrant plus de cinq siècles d'histoire et traitant de diverses cultures d'origine européenne et arabe inextricablement imbriquées. Bien que le concept de polyphonie doive beaucoup à Bakhtine qui s'en est surtout servi dans ses…
Prelims
Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel
Inédit 2 (1984)
This lecture delivered at Victoria College, University of Toronto, concentrates on defining the status to be accorded to any universals. Underlining his desire that semiotics avoid epistemological dissensions and focus instead on establishing its effectiveness, Greimas recalls that he has adopted an “agnostic” constructivist stance and thus declined to affirm whether universals exist in the world or only in the mind. Following Hjelmslev’s middle …
Moving beyond the sanctuary paradigm
This article outlines historical shifts in US and Canadian space policies using the sanctuary-contested policy framework. It highlights how sanctuary policies were born out of necessity rather than the pursuit of a peaceful global commons; they were never intended to, and did not, prevent the militarization and weaponization of space. The paper then describes challenges to global space governance and argues that diplomacy will not prevent conflic…
Philosophy (16 works) · Art (15 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (6 works) · Semiotics (6 works) · Semiotics and Representation Studies (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)