Alice Munro’s short fiction writing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This issue of Revue Etudes Canadiennes/ Canadian Studies, (n°77) is devoted to Alice Munro’s short fiction writing and particularly to her first set of short-stories Dance of the Happy Shades. It is dedicated to a Canadian author who is not a household name in France. Alice Munro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. This was a first for a Canadian author, leading observers to wonder if Canadian literature might be less « international » than other literatures in English. Taking into account some « renewed » interest in Canadian literature, in France and in Europe, we encouraged contributors to think along two lines. First we wondered how Canadian, Munro’s writing was indeed (either in form or content), looking principally at her début story collection, Dance of the Happy Shades. Second of all, we invited academics to consider if Canadian literature in English was « less visible » than other English-speaking literatures in our university curricala. The Revue is composed of a series of remarkable papers on Munro’s prose, style and motifs. All of them renew the traditional readings of Munro’s short fiction writing, particularly thanks to their original close-reading of her texts.
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.003 |
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".