Bibliographic record
Abstract
Guy Vanderhaeghe's four novels and three collections of stories have redefined and enriched the reach of prairie writing in Canada, and broadened the power and possibilities of contemporary fiction. Beginning with the Governor General's Award‐ and Faber Prize‐winning collection, Man Descending (1982), Vanderhaeghe's short fiction has depicted a rich series of ironic, detached, and quirkily philosophical characters, such as Ed, the collection's sardonic title figure, who is reincarnated and more fully developed in Vanderhaeghe's first novel, My Present Age (1984). While his short stories, often darkly comical, are founded on his characters’ quotidian vices and arresting voices, Vanderhaeghe's novels – particularly his two most recent, The Englishman's Boy (1996) and The Last Crossing (2002) – are at once grounded in and reach far beyond their prairie settings as they represent a dialogue between competing facets of the last two centuries of North American and European history and culture.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".