Bibliographic record
Abstract
During the four decades since her first collection,Dance of the Happy Shades(1968), won Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction, Alice Munro's stories have been widely acclaimed as among the finest being written in the English‐speaking world. To date, Munro has published 12 books of stories; like Mavis Gallant and Katherine Mansfield, she has concentrated her fictional powers on the short story, although she has also written story sequences, novellas, and books of linked stories. Many of her fictions draw on her family and her home territory of Huron County in southwestern Ontario, but Munro always reshapes this material to form stories populated by characters that both invoke and transform their autobiographical and geographical settings. Munro's stories often engage readers first at an everyday surface level that then becomes a membrane: as Del Jordan, the narrator ofLives of Girls and Women(1971) puts it in a famous phrase, “People's lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable – deep caves paved over with kitchen linoleum” (249). This apparent paradox of contradictions converging to reveal the depths of her characters’ lives is emblematic of Munro's fictional signature.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.225 | 0.049 |
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".