Bibliographic record
Abstract
Christina Sunley. The Tricking of Freya. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. 344 pp. $28.95 hc. The Tricking of Freya is Christina Sunley's debut novel. Set in the US, Gimli (Manitoba), and Iceland, it is a story of a Canadian family of Icelandic descent, crossing centuries, cultures, oceans, and mental states. In addition to a dramatic family saga, centered more or less on the workings and effects of mental illness, the novel incorporates themes like immigration, dislocation, identity, and the preservation of cultural traditions. It also entails an extensive account of a cultural heritage, transforming, at times, a fictional piece into a seemingly different kind of text. The form of the novel may reveal its vast scope, oscillating between a travelogue and epistolary fiction. It is Freya, the protagorlist, one thinks, who keeps all the threads together by diving into the history of a family's secret. The journey begins with a present day letter to an unknown reader, ferrying us back to the setting of Freya's childhood in America, and her first visit with her mother to their relatives in Gimli. By applying the perspective of a child, the narrator creates a generous air of openness--a feeling of unchained perception. Given the nature of the novel's main subject, the opening chapters could be viewed as crucial for the journey about to take place into the land of mental uncertainty. Due to this air of openness, brought about in the company of a child, the reader is caught off guard anal enters the enigma, free of many of the hard-to-shake-off prejudices that still tend to cloud the views of the best of people. Not even Michael Foucault could set the record straight with his Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. The seductiveness of the child's perspective in the opening chapters of Sunley's novel is so successful, that the reader is slow to catch on to the already present signs of an actual and fateful mental disorder. Like the vulnerable child at the center, the reader is swept away by an uncontrollable force. In fact, the gloom of the looming shadow may be present from the very start, soon to affect the life of the young girl in the most painful and long-lasting way. Prior to arriving for the first time in Gimli to spend a summer with her grandmother, Sigga, and her mother's sister, Aunt Birdie, there is considerable, escalating tension between the two sisters, on the subject of why the mother and the daughter have not visited their family in Gimli since the birth of Freya: More summers passed, and as each approached I'd hear my mother arguing with Birdie on the phone. …
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.095 | 0.029 |
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".