Bibliographic record
Abstract
In these later works, Atwood returns to several of her familiar themes and forms. In Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature , a collection of critical essays dealing with fiction and the fictionalising processes, she replays versions of tales of the Canadian wilderness, the fascination with lost causes and pioneering journeys, adventure and mythic forest creatures, reprising the interests of the earlier Survival (1970). Similar tales surface in her story sequence Moral Disorder , where the protagonist, Nell’s, father retells and inhabits them in his ageing mind. There are 11 tales, which feature both recollection and thoughts about the future, sometimes highly reflective and speculative, but never sentimental. The Tent is a collection of short, flash fictions rehearsing the storytelling forms and habits with which people make sense of their lives, explain the strange, build promises of the future, and speculate about how it could be otherwise. These fictions also consider the fictionalising processes themselves and evidence Atwood’s endlessly ironic, parodic, inter-textual, subtle, occasionally sarcastic satire.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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.
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".