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Record W1971622467 · doi:10.1353/esc.0.0070

Turning the Pages: Rereading Atwood’s Novels

2007· article· en· W1971622467 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Nathalie Cooke

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish studies in Canada · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicUtopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAppealDismissalOrder (exchange)Plot (graphics)LiteratureHistoryArtComputer scienceLawPolitical science

Abstract

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D " " is often taken as an insult: a dismissal of the book on the grounds that its primary, and possibly only, appeal is at the level of plot. But all fi ction attempts to appeal to its readers, and those readers should be tempted to turn the pages. In the case of Margaret Atwood's fi ction, however, readers are tempted to turn the pages both ways. Her fi ction urges fi rst-time readers forward, forward toward richly satisfying, if not entirely conclusive, moments of closure. But her fi ction also demands readers to turn backwards, to turn the pages in the other direction as well: to go back to read again and reassess in light of the new insights they have gleaned as they have read forward. ink, for instance, of the diff erence between a reader's fi rst encounter with Off red in e Handmaid's Tale and that same reader's return to the novel once s/he understands that Off red's story has been pieced together by the insidious Pieixoto.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.909
Threshold uncertainty score0.462

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.194 · 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 teacher head, 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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