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Record W2623841494

Art and music in the fiction of Helen Weinzweig / by Noreen Ivancic.

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Noreen Ivancic

Bibliographic record

VenueKnowledge Commons (Lakehead University) · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtVisual artsArt historyAesthetics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Critics Northrop Frye and, more recently, Linda Hutcheon have commented tellingly on
\nthe relationships that exist among Canadian art, music and literature. Perhaps surprisingly, aside
\nfrom an incidental comment here and a descriptive comment there, Canadian criticism has been
\nvery reluctant to investigate this promising complex of ideas. The training in music, for
\nexarnple, of such writers as Charles G. D. Roberts, Robert Finch and Sinclair Ross has usually
\nbeen treated as a matter ofbiographical fact rather than as something which might be of
\nsignificance to their work.
\nHelen Weinzweig, a Canadian writer, has made extensive and significant use of music
\nand visual art in her fiction. It may be an informative comment on the focus of Canadian
\ncriticism that Weinzweig's published work to date ? two novels and a number of short stories -
\nremains largely unexplored, and, on the issue of her use of music and art in her work, virtually
\nignored. But a close examination of the work shows that Weinzweig uses both music and art in
\nan integral way not merely to indicate the broad cultural spectrum from which she can draw to
\nenrich the texture of her work, but also in a structural way to link pattern and meaning. For the
\nmost part rejecting conventional fictional structures, Weinzweig employs music and art, under
\nthe integrating power of memory, in order to offer her readers more fully charged, alternative
\nviews of life.
\nThis thesis proposes to examine Weinzweig?s use of allusions and structures from music
\nand art, in concert with the power of memory, in an effort to explicate the peculiar power of her
\nprose fiction. Emphasis in the thesis will be on the short stories although there will be some
\ndiscussion of the novels as well. The thesis will be organized in the following way. Following a
\nbrief introduction, chapter one will examine Weinzweig's use ofvisual art and artists in the
\nstories; chapter two will explore musical allusions and structures in the stories and in the novel,
\nBasic Black with Pearls?, a brief conclusion will be provided.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.381
Threshold uncertainty score0.975

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.196 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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