The Creative Word in Atwood’s The Robber Bride: Towards New Female Identities
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Abstract
Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride is a very complex novel, questioning the stereotypes concerning female identity and the patriarchal definition of the feminine Self. Through the diverse acts of re-naming themselves, the three female characters of the novel challenge the ‘scientistic terms’, as Panikkar puts it, of the male worldview. The stable categories of the patriarchal language are not adequate to represent the multiplicity of the identity and spiritual world of women. Atwood’s creative word is able to open the intimate world of these women in order to envisage fluid boundaries between the genders and delineate new possibilities for male/female relationships for future generations. Bibliography Atwood, Margaret. 2009. The Robber Bride . London: Virago Press. Anshaw, Carol. 1994. Typhoid Zenia. The Women ’ s Review of Books , 11: 4-15. Bontatibus, Donna. 1998. Reconnecting with the Past: Personal Hauntings in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride . Papers on Language and Literature , 34, IV: 358-372. Deery, June. 1997. Science for Feminists: Margaret Atwood’s Body of Knowledge. Twentieth Century Literature , 43, IV: 470-486. Grace, Sherrill & Lorraine Weir. 1983. Margaret Atwood. Language, Text, and System . Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Eisler, Riane. 1987. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future . San Francisco: Harper & Row. Eisler, Riane. 1995. Sacred Pleasure, Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body: New Paths to Power and Love. San Francisco: Harper & Row. Hempen, Daniela. 1997. Bluebeard’s Female Helper: The Ambiguous Role of the Strange Old Woman in the Grimms’ “Castle of Murder” and “The Robber Bridegroom”. Folklore , 108: 45-48. Howells, Coral Ann. 1996. Margaret Atwood . London: MacMillan Press. Howells, Coral Ann. 2010. Margaret Atwood’s Canadian Signature: How Far is the Writer’s Reach . Anna Pia De Luca ed. Investigating Canadian Identities: 10 th Anniversary Contributions . Udine: Forum, 47-59. Hutcheon, Linda. 1988. The Canadian Postmodern. A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction . Toronto: Oxford University Press. Irigaray, Luce. 1985. This Sex which is not One . New York: Cornell University. Panikkar, Raimon. 2007. Lo spirito della parola. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri. Pinkola Estes, Clarissa. 1995. Women Who Run With the Wolves . Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype . New York: Ballantine Books. Potts, Donna L. 1999. ‘The Old Maps Are Dissolving’: Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood’s The Robber Bride . Tulsa Studies in Women ’ s Literature , 18, II: 281-298. Rosenberg, Jerome H. 1984. Margaret Atwood . Boston: Twany Publishers. Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg. 1997. Atwood’s The Robber Bride : The Vampire as Intersubjective Catalyst. Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature , 30, III: 151-169. Tolan, Fiona. 2005. Situating Canada: The Shifting Perspective of the Postcolonial Other in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride . The American Review of Canadian Studies , 35, III: 453- 473. Wyatt, Jean. 1998. I Want to Be You: Envy, the Lacanian Double, and Feminist Community in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride . Tulsa Studies in Women ’ s Literature , 17, I: 37-64.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.013 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.002 |
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".