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Complexity and Uncertainty-The Gender Identities of Main Characters in the English Patient

2020· article· en· W4293119480 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Li Zhang, Leilei Zhang

Bibliographic record

VenueCross-Currents An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBinary oppositionAmbiguityOpposition (politics)Identity (music)ConfusionSociologyDeconstruction (building)Theme (computing)Focus (optics)Gender identityPsychologyAestheticsGender studiesSocial psychologyEpistemologyLinguisticsPsychoanalysisComputer scienceArtPolitical sciencePhilosophyLawPolitics

Abstract

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The English Patient, is the masterpiece by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje, whose complex structure, various themes and identity concerns have always been the focus of controversy among literary critics. However, few of them explore the deconstruction of the main characters’ gender identities in the novel. Thus, based on some theories relevant to identity concerns, the paper tries to analyze the gender identities of main characters in The English Patient, and explore the complexity and ambiguity of the theme and characters in the novel. It studies the characters’ gender identities in four aspects to eliminate the binary opposition, and each aspect is represented by one or two characters. Then, the paper provides two cultural significances based on the research, which hopes to help people find a sense of belonging in the identity confusion and anxiety and gives a reference for the relevant researches on identity concerns.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.752
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.214
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.147 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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