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Record W2350167004

A Study on the Narrative Techniques in The Loons by Margaret Laurence

2012· article· en· W2350167004 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Chen Ping

Bibliographic record

VenueOverseas English · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeMainstreamPerformative utteranceGirlMetisModernization theorySociologyPower (physics)HistoryStyle (visual arts)White (mutation)AestheticsArtLiteraturePsychologyComputer sciencePolitical scienceLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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The short story The Loons by Margaret Laurence describes the tragic life of a Metis girl, Piquette Tonnerre, who longs for the cultural acceptance by the white Canadian's mainstream. In the story, applying the narrative techniques of point of view and time and space art, Margaret Laurence constructs her special literature style and strengthens the performative power of the literature in the meantime. By looking into the author's narrative techniques, readers may better comprehend the marginalized races'struggle and their cultural loss in the process of post-colonization and post-modernization.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.085
Threshold uncertainty score0.170

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0250.016
Scholarly communication0.0070.005
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.230 · 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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