Carving the names of "not-persons" : ex-centric perspectives on community in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper addresses the issue of community in Jane Urquhart's latest novel, The Stone Carvers (2001), which juxtaposes two temporal planes: one depicts the construction of the small community of Shoneval in Ontario in the nineteenth century, while the second one shows the crisis of community from the perspective of ex-centric protagonists before, during and after the First World War. The term community is used to refer to various forms of group-identity: family, local society, nation. The analysis focuses mostly on Urquhart'a interrogation of the Canadian myth of World War 1: the author's deconstruction of the artificial national unity at the beginning of the conflict, the questioning of the official memory of glory and noble sacrifice (connected with the Battle of Vimy Ridge in particular) and her ambiguous attitude to the construction of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. The paper concludes with broader reflections on the concept of community in Jane Urquhart's writings, and its significance in the Canadian context as well as in the Central European region.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".