Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (review)
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Abstract
In a seminal essay, originally published in the mid-1980s, Linda Hutcheon coined the phrase "Canadian historiographic metafiction" to describe a flowering literary genre that has a genuinely Canadian flavor and focuses on the act of writing about Canadian history and identity. Herb Wyile's Speculative Fictions is the most recent study of this genre, and the author is to be commended for bringing the discussion up-to-date by discussing not only classics such as Timothy Findley's The Wars, Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People, and George Bowering's Burning Water but also new developments in recent works by writers such as Jane Urquhart, Margaret Sweatman, Thomas Wharton, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Wayne Johnston.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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