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Record W2806621191 · doi:10.3138/utq.87.2.02

Individuation and Religious Mythology in the Novels of W.O. Mitchell

2018· article· en· W2806621191 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Ian McAdam

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Quarterly · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion and Society Interactions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMythologyIdeologySubjectivityIndividuationContext (archaeology)SociologyLiteratureAestheticsPsychoanalysisHuman sexualityAsceticismPhilosophyHistoryEpistemologyGender studiesArtPsychologyPoliticsLawTheology

Abstract

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This article attempts to rectify the current critical neglect of W.O. Mitchell by acknowledging the complexity of his work – in particular, through a focus on repressed sexuality and homoeroticism. Mitchell's writing is briefly related to the tradition of modern realism with respect to the complex balance it achieves between objective and subjective perspectives, which allows archetypal themes to emerge in the context of more specific social analysis that is especially evident in three novels: Who Has Seen the Wind, How I Spent My Summer Holidays, and Roses Are Difficult Here. The article offers the binary of Apollonian and Dionysian as a helpful interpretive and explanatory tool in a reading of the ideological tension between Christian and pagan religious mythologies through which Mitchell configures his exploration of the individuation process. In light of their own humane depictions, the novels ultimately challenge a conservatively “masculine” emphasis on a narrowly defined social role that relegates unconventional subjectivity to the arena of narcissistic failure.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0090.023
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.258 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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Published2018
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