Dwelling in Intimate and Grand Spaces: Natural, Bodily and Narrative Landscapes in Alice Munro’s “What Do You Want to Know For?”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article addresses relationships between natural landscapes, narrative style and women’s bodyscapes in Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock (2006), concentrating on the final short story, “What Do You Want to Know For?” Focusing on theories of space and place-relations by Yi-Fu Tuan, E. Relph, Henri LeFebvre and Wesley A. Kort, the discussion examines the narrator’s return home in these memoir-like stories. The structures and shapes of these narratives of the landscape, the woman’s body and the short story stress dynamic processes and evolving presences rather than permanence or stability. The article, referring to Martin Heidegger’s concept of dwelling, argues that through sparing and preserving her home-place, the narrator is freed from the compulsion to dig into the earth, the past and memory for knowledge and answers. The mounded shapes of the kame moraine, crypt and narrator’s breast, which connect landforms, mortality and the woman’s body, allow for the opening of intimate space into grand space, freeing the narrator from curiosity and the need to know .
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".