Bibliographic record
Abstract
The critical assessment of David Adams Richards's fiction provides one of the best examples in Canada of the politics of literary reception, a politics unique to the country's uneven and still tenuous federalism. The pretext of that reception holds that, as an Atlantic Canadian who is peripheral to the country's industrial center, he occupies a space deeply encoded with nostalgias of the folk, specifically of agrarian romances of work, family, and faith. His natural comparators in this realm are eastern Canada's best‐loved regionalists – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Charles G. D. Roberts, and Ernest Buckler – each in different ways an adherent of the roman de la terre formula. Richards's conscious rejection of “folk” representations and regional identification, however, has given rise to a body of work that is deliberately political in its response to distant critical authorities that perpetuate delimiting nostalgias of place. His work is therefore the ground across which different versions of Atlantic Canada's socio‐economic reality are frequently contested. While his readership is diverse and loyal, some of his critics have been unmerciful in attacking what they perceive as his coarsening of place.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".