The interfaces between autobiography and painting in cat’s eye, by Margaret Atwood / As interfaces entre autobiografia e pintura a olho de gato, de Margaret Atwood
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Margaret Atwood's Cat’s Eye (1988) features the fictional autobiography of Elaine Risley, influential Canadian artist. The painter, upon returning to her hometown, Toronto, for a retrospective exhibition of her work, critically rethinks her life and, in particular, her relationship with her three childhood best friends: Carol, Grace and Cordelia. Throughout the narrative, we follow Risley's artistic and personal development, who, through her first-person account and her paintings — placed for the reader through epigrammatic descriptions — exposes her trajectory as a woman, artist and mother in the 60s. Hite (1995) comments on the relationship between the facts narrated by Risley and her artistic production, explaining the common point between them: neither art nor personal experience can be separated from the dynamics of power, which constitute reality. Thus, in Cat's Eye , both the autobiographical account and Risley's paintings are relevant not only for the presentation of the events experienced by the protagonist, but also for their assimilation and problematization. Bearing in mind the connection between the two means — narrative and painting — this work aims to analyze the links between them in the novel. To this end, the connections between the chapters and Risley's paintings — who name them — will be explored, as well as the presentation and composition of works during the narrative and, when necessary, their relation with other paintings and referenced artists. As theoretical support, I employ authors who work on Cat's Eye ’s relationship with art/painting, as well as the relationship between autobiography and art: Banerjee (1990), De Jong (1998), Hite (1995), Howarth (1974) and Vickroy (2005). The expected contributions are the discussion about the interfaces between narrative and painting, as well as their meanings inside and outside Cat’s Eye .
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| 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".