Un idilio más allá de la obsesión: el duelo tras la pérdida del amor en 'Bardon Bus', de Alice Munro
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In her short-story “Bardon Bus,” from her 1982 collection The Moons of Jupiter, Canadian writer Alice Munro dissects the memories of a middle-aged woman living in Toronto about a love affair she had had a few months earlier, while on a research trip to Australia, with an anthropologist whom she just names “X.” Through a constant time-leap from the Australian past to the Canadian present and back, Munro describes the strategies that the unnamed main character develops in order to deal with the sense of loss after the end of the affair. In this essay the influence and effects of love on female and male individuals, as exemplified in Munro’s story, will be analysed under the light of emotion and romantic love, and in relation to the masquerade of femininity, within the framework of Sara Ahmed’s theories and other feminist theoretical trends. The connection and/or the clash between the emotionally charged past and the loveless present is revealed to grow and strengthen its influence on the narrator’s psyche under the mask of romantic love, a stereotype that takes its roots from conventional and sexist assumptions about love and its absence.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".