The pursuit of happiness: A study of Alice Munro’s fiction
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The theme of happiness in the short fiction of Alice Munro evokes four contexts of signification. Contemporary North American popular culture holds happiness as a realizable but elusive ideal. In the generic conventions of fiction, happiness functions as a goal and as a sign of closure; stories end when the characters get married and live happily ever after. Thomas Jefferson (1776/1962) Hoy, H. (1991). Alice Munro: “Unforgettable, Indigestible Messages.” Journal of Canadian Studies, 26(1): 5–21. [Google Scholar] declared the pursuit of happiness, together with life and liberty, to be unalienable, God-given rights; modern commentators hold that the difference between “peace, order, and good government” and “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” encapsulates a key distinction between the cultures of Canada and the United States. Religious and philosophical traditions identify happiness with faith and the highest good. This essay considers how these four contexts of happiness operate within Alice Munro’s fiction, using her story “White Dump” from the collection The Progress of Love as an example.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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