On the Representation of History in Atwood's Works:From The Journals of Susanna Moodie to Alias Grace
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The 19th century Canadian immigrant woman writer Susanna Moodie relates and interprets in her writings once and again a historic event of her time — sensational Grace Marks Case. Margaret Atwood represents these historical figures and events respectively in The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Alias Grace. This thesis probes for reason why Atwood chose these historical materials for literary creation,the connection between two books,and their different emphases in representing history. In The Journals,Atwood highlights Moodie's ambivalence towards her new homeland Canada,which is made a symbol of collective unconsciousness of Canadian people; while in Alias Grace,Atwood reflects over her early credulity of Moodie's story about Grace Marks Case ,and by re-telling story ,Atwood exposes errors and partiality of Moodie's account. Meanwhile,through employing ingenious narrative methods and fusing critical theories of psychoanalysis,feminism,postmodernism,etc.,Atwood demonstrates an up-to-date sense of history which contains ideas of multiplicity and ambiguity of the historical fact ,and un-attainability of the final historical fact.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.044 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".