Introduction: Surviving the Paraphrase: Poetics and Public Culture in Canada
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Abstract
Hey what are you doing?" she said, and he said "i'm just standing here being a Canadian."and she said, "Wow, is that really feasible?" and he said, "Yes, but it requires plenty of imagination."-Lionel Kearns "Public Poem for a Manitoulin Canada day" 1 In 1974, Frank Davey's conference paper "Surviving the Paraphrase" took the small world of Canadian literary criticism by storm.The tenor of discussion changed as writers and critics became more self-conscious about their place in the world and how they engaged it in their work.1 after the passing of the North american Free Trade agreement (NaFTa) in 1994, arguably Canada's first major public encounter with globalizing processes, it seems to many that understandings of poetics and public culture in Canada are changing once more.This special issue uses the occasion of Davey's retirement from university employment in 2005 to address the history and challenges of the current conjuncture.How might we describe poetics and public culture in Canada at the dawn of a new century? 2 The epigraph to this introduction reproduces a quotation from Lionel Kearns's occasional work, "Public Poem for a Manitoulin Canada day" that circulated publicly in the call for papers and on the poster for "Poetics and Public Culture in Canada: a Conference in Honour of Frank Davey," hosted by the department of English at The University of Western Ontario between 3-6 March 2005.2Kearns's poem suggests the degree to which "just standing here being a Canadian" is a complex imaginative event sited in time, space, and subjectivity.The act of "being a Canadian" includes the transactive public activities of dialogue, performance, and transnational economic relations, the latter introduced in the lines that follow our extract: "He seems so serious and determined / that she forgets to hand him / his Macdonald's hamburger."drawing attention to what and how we eat now, this moment reinforces the text's reminder that citizenship is always embodied, in ways that register the changing dimensions of the public/private divide.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.002 |
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.
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".