Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study starts from a thesis that Margaret Atwood is a serious thinker whose writing reflects the imprints of her Canadian background and her general outlook toward life and the world. Further, her analysis of Canadian thematic motifs in Survival can serve as a starting point for us to approach her mind as a general whole which contributes to better comprehending her novels. The theoretical part of this study comprises Atwood’s important ideas presented not only in Survival but also in her other nonfiction books, articles, and interviews. There are five chapters in this dissertation. Chapter One provides a general profile of Atwood, the major ideas, methodology, characteristics, and objectives of her analyses in Survival, and then briefly explains the arrangement of major arguments in the following chapters. Chapter Two focuses on Atwood’s ecological and pantheist concerns. It starts from the Canadian settlement theme and the non-binary mentality in Atwood’s pantheism. The author then extends the discussion to relevant topics such as the close relations among religion, truth/reality, science, and fiction. Chapter Three centers on Atwood’s nationalist concerns and her overall political attitudes. My discussion starts from Atwood’s analyses of typical American and Canadian mindsets as reflected in animal stories and of the historical aspects of the formation of these two mindsets. This chapter also explores Atwood’s subtle political attitudes in her cultural nationalism, as well as toward feminism, theocracy, and atheism. Chapter Four orients around Atwood’s socio-cultural concerns in relation to victimization and the role of the artist in particular. It begins with her analysis of the Canadian motifs family-as-trap and the paralyzed artist, and her exploration on the causes of the entrapment/paralysis. Atwood’s analysis accentuates the political significance of writing as a social means for consciousness-raising. The author then discusses Atwood’s more sophisticated speculations on the tension between writing/art and social responsibility, and on the temptations from the market which could threaten the artist’s survival and challenge his conscience. In each of the three main chapters, after illustrating the theoretical part, the author reads Atwood’s Surfacing and Oryx and Crake within the theoretic framework to demonstrate their close connections. The last chapter (Chapter Five) of this study proposes some further speculations on Atwood’s humanism. The major objective is to distinguish her humanism, especially her pantheism, from some major traits in English Romanticism and American Transcendentalism to foreground its uniqueness and the influence of her Canadian background. After that, the author cites some examples from Oryx and Crake to demonstrate the belief that to grasp Atwood’s main ideas as a theoretical system can contribute to better comprehending not only her mind as a whole but also some textual complexities in her literary presentations.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.002 |
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".