The Fat Man on Snow Dome: Surprise and Sense of Place (or, Reading Laurie Ricou’s David Wagoner)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Laurie Ricou’s A Field Guide to “A Guide to Dungeness Spit” (1997) is an idiosyncratic critical account of “A Guide to Dungeness Spit” (1962), a poem by David Wagoner that depicts a coastal landscape on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington. This essay suggests that the sense of place in Wagoner’s poem depends upon a representation of surprise. Ricou’s study in turn takes surprise as a critical trope, emulating the poem and linking explication of the text to autobiographical writing and a survey of the poem’s contexts. The essay contends that the resultant critical mode is at once highly attentive to textual detail yet cognizant of the degree to which individual experience shapes interpretation. The essay places Wagoner’s poem and Ricou’s book in the context of ecocriticism. It pays particular attention to the depiction and shaping of a literary region that extends across the border between Canada and the United States.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 |
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 teacher head, 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".