Where has "Real" Nature Gone, Anyway? Ecocriticism, Canadian Writing and the Lures of the Virtual
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Abstract
espanolEste ensayo ofrece un acercamiento a la ecocritica en el contexto de la literatura y la cultura anglocanadiense contemporanea. Analiza las distintas definiciones de la identidad nacional en las ultimas tres decadas en conexion con la naturaleza canadiense real o figurada. Despues de un periodo de desmantelamiento de estas asociaciones, periodo caracterizado por el auge de un multiculturalismo fundamentalmente urbano, la aparicion de la ecocritica en los anos 90 pudiera ser interpretada como una reaccion conservadora para recuperar la metafora de unidad nacional que la naturaleza proporcionaba. Pero, ?hay algo intrinsecamente canadiense en la ecocritica? ?Cual seria la contribucion de escritores y criticos canadienses al campo? Para responder a estas preguntas, el ensayo escruta varios momentos en el uso de la metafora en la produccion critica y creativa, frente a conceptos cambiantes sobre el medio natural y nuestra propia relacion con el en la era de la tecnologia EnglishThis essay offers an approach to ecocriticism in the context of contemporary English Canadian literature and culture. It analyzes definitions of the national identity in the past three decades in connection with Canada’s real and/or imaginary wilderness. Following a period of dismantlement of such associations, a period characterized by the rise of a fundamentally urban multiculturalism in Canadian literature, the ascent of ecocriticism in the 1990s might be interpreted as a conservative move towards the recuperation of the unified national metaphor the country’s association with the wilderness seemed to provide. But, is there anything Canadian about ecocriticism? What could Canadian writers and critics contribute to it? To answer these questions, the essay will scrutinize various moments of the metaphor in criticism and fiction, along with changing concepts, in the age of technology, of nature and of our relation to it.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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 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".