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Record W4380928758 · doi:10.3138/ctr.120.008

Monstrous History: Judith Thompson’s <i>Sled</i>

2004· article· en· W4380928758 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Penny Farfan

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Theatre Review · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWildernessCrueltyIncarnationEPICPlot (graphics)French hornArtHistorySociologyCriminologyPhilosophyLiteratureTheology

Abstract

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In Lion in the Streets (prod. 1990; pub. 1992), Judith Thompson used the device of a relay plot structure to suggest that the brutal killer of a young girl is not simply a criminal aberration but an extreme incarnation of the underlying spirit that pervades the community, manifesting itself in a range of violent acts perpetrated by a spectrum of seemingly less murderous citizens over the course of the play. As Thompson has explained, “The lion is the cruelty that is in all of us, the seed that is in everyone” (qtd. in Zimmerman, Playwrighting Women 203). In her 1997 play Sled, Thompson extends this earlier exploration of the monstrous wilderness within the urban heart to an epic vision of contemporary Canada and the history that has shaped it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.092
Threshold uncertainty score0.340

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0170.012
Scholarly communication0.0070.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.211 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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