Alice Munro’s Ecosophy: from “Walker Brothers Cowboy” (1968) to “Dear Life” (2012)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alice Munro’s interest in and reliance on natural environment, as evidenced by her stories, has been viewed by literary scholars in a variety of ways: generic, thematic, rhetorical, and ideological. While she is unlikely to subscribe to any of the current definitions of ecosophy, the environmental wisdom conveyed and sustained through her fiction is a matter of adopting ecological perspectives, which I would like to study in this article, referring to a handful of stories that span well over four decades of her creative activity. Bibliography Higgins, Iain. 2002. Science and Nature Writing. W. H. New ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1010-1016. Li, Hong-hui. 2011. Reflections on Alice Munro’s Eco-feminism. Journal of Bingtuan Education Institute, 21, 4, 53-55. Micros, Marianne. 1999 [1998]. Et in Ontario Ego: The Pastoral Ideal and the Blazon Tradition in Alice Munro’s ‘Lichen’. Robert Thacker ed. The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro. Toronto: ECW Press, 44-60. Munro, Alice. 2000 [1968]. Dance of the Happy Shades. London: Vintage. Munro, Alice. 1971. Lives of Girls and Women. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Munro, Alice. 1998. The Love of a Good Woman. New York: Knopf. Munro, Alice. 2006 [2004]. Runaway. London: Vintage. Munro, Alice. 2012. Dear Life. London: Vintage. New, W. H. ed. 2002. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Ricou, Laurie. 2002. Ecocriticism. W. H. New ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 324. Scott, A. O. 2006. Native Ground. New York Times. 10-12-2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/books/review/Scott.t.html?pagewanted=1&_ r=0 (consulted on 16-8-2014). Tinnell, John. 2011. Transversalising the Ecological Turn: Four Components of Felix Guattari’s Ecosophical Perspective. The Fibreculture Journal . 9-10-2011, http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/2011/10/09/fcj-121-transversalising-the- ecological-turn-four-components-of-felix-guattari%e2%80%99s-ecosophical- perspective/ (consulted on 11-8-2014).
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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 | 0.021 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".