Tradition, Modernity, and the Enmeshing of Home and Away: The Shipping News and Proulx’s 1990s Newfoundland
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In its portrait of coastal Newfoundland, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News both exploits and subverts an idealized and romanticized notion of the quirky and close-to-nature “Folk.” Its depiction of island realities also emphasizes the challenging effects of postmodernity on the fictional outport community of Killick-Claw (although Lasse Halström’s film version largely omits this theme). Proulx’s exploration of the tension between tradition and modernity also addresses questions of ecology: the novel gains force from its descriptions of the wild and coastal landscapes that are the foundation of its appeal to tourists, and forces affecting Killick-Claw include big commercial and government interests, ecological decline, and the lack of sustainable work. Tensions between Home and Away and between tradition and modernity are explored through the complex trope of the sea, and the novel stresses the ways in which increased outside influences on Newfoundland force the community to deal with change.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".