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Record W2353279458

The Lost Home -- An Interpretation of Margaret Laurence's The Loon

2002· article· en· W2353279458 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
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Bibliographic record

VenueShandong Foreige Languages Journal · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterpretation (philosophy)MulticulturalismSociologyGirlTheme (computing)White (mutation)PassionFandomAestheticsMedia studiesGender studiesArtPsychologySocial psychologyPhilosophyLinguistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Margaret Laurence, a renowned Canadian woman writer, deals most astutely with the theme of clashes, communication and assimilation between people of different races and cultures. In her superb short story The Loon , the author, with ardent passion and keen perception, creates a native Indian girl by the name of Piquette Tonnerre in an exquisite style. Piquette seeks to fit into the main currents of culture but is marginalized by the white dominated society. The story expresses the fundamental idea of multiculturalism which has always been highlighted by the author in many of her major works. The present paper gives a tentative interpretation of the artistic features of the story in terms of first person participant point of view, characterization and symbolic significance.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
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 score0.116
Threshold uncertainty score0.230

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0190.021
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.221 · 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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