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Record W2319394588 · doi:10.2307/1209063

Phallicism and Ambivalence in Alice Munro's "Bardon Bus"

2003· article· en· W2319394588 on OpenAlexaff
Elizabeth A. Shih

Bibliographic record

VenueContemporary Literature · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAlice (programming language)AmbivalenceArtSociologyArt historyPsychoanalysisPsychology

Abstract

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n a 1982 interview, Alice Munro commented on characterization in her short stories by saying: "[T]he whole mother-daughter relationship interests me a great deal.It probably obsesses me.The way fathers obsess some male writers" (Interview [Hancock] 215).Making that observation on the eve of the publication of The Moons of Jupiter (1982), a short-story collection whose treatment of female experience is frequently centered in mother-daughter relationships, Munro acknowledged her personal investment in one of the most fundamental psychoanalytic narratives of subjectivity-the loss of the mother and the necessary repudiation of that loss.While Munro's latest collection-Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)-deals with the "stuff of adult life: love, sex, success, failure, hope, death" (McClelland and Stewart book jacket), I find an ambitious if underappreciated discussion of the paradoxes of compulsory heterosexual and female gendering in "Bardon Bus" (Moons) that Munro her-I wish to thank Apollonia Steele, Marlys Chevrefils, and the staff of the Alice Munro collection

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.055
Threshold uncertainty score0.109

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0510.030
Scholarly communication0.0120.007
Open science0.0010.009
Research integrity0.0060.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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