Writing-Translating (from) the In-Between: An Interview with Gail Scott
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While Gail Scott is well known Canadian and American avant-garde literary circles as a writer of experimental novels, short stories, and essays, she is perhaps less well known as a literary translator of Quebec fiction. Since 1998, Scott has published four literary translations of works by contemporary Quebec authors whose writing reflects many of her own aesthetic concerns: Laurence by France Theoret (1998), The Sailor's Disquiet by Michael Delisle (2002), Helen with a Secret , also by Michael Delisle (2002), and Mile End by Lise Tremblay (2002). Although she has often addressed, her essays and interviews, the importance of writing in translation when one lives at a linguistic and cultural crossroads, Scott has been less explicit about her work as a translator. This is the first interview which she reflects on her conception of literary translation, as well as on the function, strategies, and liberties of the English language translator, notably the context of Quebec. She also considers the ways these issues at once intersect with and intervene her writing, her role as public intellectual, and her world view.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.043 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".