GUILT AND INNOCENCE IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE SELF: AN EXAMINATION OF MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY IN MARGARET ATWOOD'S <i>SURFACING</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the theme of guilt and innocence in Margaret Atwood's 1972 novel, Surfacing, and pays particular attention to how these themes interact in the text with feminism, nationalism and environmentalism. I suggest that the ideas that Atwood is exploring in the novel – ideas about an individual's social responsibility and about a society's responsibility towards an individual – are questions that later become central to the multiculturalism debate in Canada. The article attempts to demonstrate that Atwood is considering some of the same concerns that are discussed in Charles Taylor's 1994 essay, 'The Politics of Difference', and that both authors are articulating important themes that continue to have relevance in Canada today. I argue that Atwood's use of the traditional quest motif initially seems to imply a liberal belief in autonomous authenticity, but that Atwood disrupts the normative quest pattern by concluding, like Taylor, that authenticity can only be achieved in dialogue with othe...
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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 | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.048 | 0.108 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".