Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article’s analysis will revolve around the contemporary literary reconfigurations of the myth of the old West with special attention to the Wild West as a performed space and a performed narrative. Attention will be paid to the reconfiguration of the myth by focusing, in turn, on chuckwagon races as “a synecdoche of the West” (van Herk) and their carnivalesque quality; the myth versus reality debate always accompanying the myth of the Wild West as well as the narrativization of the West; female characters who claim the spotlight of the new West; the ironic treatment of the traditional cowboy icon; and the front stage–back stage relations that contribute to the Wild West’s performativity and the ultimate survival in the postmodern world. The strategies of the myth’s dis- and re-membering as represented in two texts by Aritha van Herk—the short story “Leading the Parade” and the performance piece “Shooting a Saskatoon (Whatever Happened to the Marlboro Man?)”—will be examined to reveal an emergent new Canadian West.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.057 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".