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Record W3164949992 · doi:10.30853/phil210252

Motif of Blindness in Margaret Atwood’s Novel “The Blind Assassin”

2021· article· en· W3164949992 on OpenAlex
Anna Nikolaevna Isaeva

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenuePhilology Theory & Practice · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicUtopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMotif (music)BlindnessMythologyNoveltyEmbodied cognitionArtLiteraturePsychologyAestheticsComputer scienceOptometryMedicineArtificial intelligenceSocial psychology

Abstract

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The study aims to determine the purpose for which Margaret Atwood (the Canadian writer) refers to mythological motifs in her novel “The Blind Assassin” and how this is embodied in the text. The article examines how the motif of blindness, which is characteristic of many mythologies, is manifested through the novel’s compositional features. Scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the role of the motif of blindness in M. Atwood’s novel “The Blind Assassin” is examined for the first time. In doing so, mythological and comparative research methods were used. As a result, it is proved that the motif of blindness manifests itself at different levels and in different senses in the novel “The Blind Assassin”.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.920
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
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 science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.060
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.234 · 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