Bibliographic record
Abstract
The novel in Canada has developed formally and thematically in relation to changing conceptions of the Canadian identity. From popular romances written in English and French, which dominated literary production in the mid‐eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to subgenres of literary romance and realism that proliferated in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the novel's changing structures and themes reflect the variously imperial, bicultural, regionalist, and pluralist conceptions of Canada that have comprised the nation's complex cultural and political life since the publication of the first Canadian novel, Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague (1769). Renowned Canadian novelists today include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Antonine Maillet, and Anne Hébert. Their popularity in Canada and abroad has reflected widespread readerly interest in Canada's cultural, regional, and linguistic heterogeneity. Earlier novelists, such as John Richardson, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Susanna Moodie, Hugh MacLennan, and Gabrielle Roy, among others, garnered popular and critical attention for their works which variously negotiate the formative relationship between individuals and societies at key moments in Canada's sociopolitical development.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".