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Record W1597017523

Frank Davey and the Firing Squad

2007· article· en· W1597017523 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Aritha van Herk

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Canadian Literature · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndictmentPoliticsParaphraseReading (process)SilenceMedia studiesCollusionPopular cultureNationalismSociologyLiteratureHistoryLawArtAestheticsPolitical sciencePhilosophyLinguistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Frank Davey's analyses of popular culture, nationalism, the media, and both print and material culture call to attention some of the hypocrisies practised behind the canonical drapes of Canadian literature. His early wrestlings with the discontents and self-deceptions of our critical practice taught critics and readers to be suspicious of paraphrase. But despite his sounding other alarms, his later discussions of our culture's continuing love affair with paraphrasis have been ignored. The critical silence that met his public and political texts Reading Kim Right (1993), Karla’s Web (1994) and Mr. and Mrs. G.G. (2003) is an indictment of our national collusion with a limited and limiting annotative or glossographic readerly practice. These “media” texts merit consideration as careful as that given Davey’s other poetical interventions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.102
Threshold uncertainty score0.290

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0310.014
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2007
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