Generic Experiment and Confusion in Early Canadian Novels of the Great War
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Abstract
The years following the First World War witnessed a dramatic change in the Canadian novel, from nineteenth-century romanticism to modern, cosmopolitan, and multi-generic literary realism. The resulting experimentation and confusion are pronounced in several of Canada’s most unjustly neglected war novels: Gertrude Arnold’s Sister Anne! Sister Anne! (1919), L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside (1920), Peregrine Acland’s All Else is Folly: A Tale of War and Passion (1927), and Charles Yale Harrison’s Generals Die in Bed (1930). Some critics, such as Eric Thompson, Donna Coates, and Dagmar Novak, have worked toward identifying a Canadian war-novel genre, but no one has adequately theorized its central role in the formation of multi-generic modern realism in Canadian writing. Because Canada’s early Great War novelists were forced to negotiate contradictory demands that their work both document and celebrate a brutal war, the resulting novels are exceptionally revealing of the aesthetic and narratological challenges met by Canada’s canonical modern realists.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".