Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book is designed to serve as an accessible introduction for any serious reading of Hugh Hood's novel-series The New Age / Le nouveau siècle.It is intended alike for general readers, students, and scholars interested in Canadian literature in English.The opening chapters provide preliminary information -biographical, formal, and literaryhistorical -while the rest offer a novel-by-novel discussion of each book in the series.Individuals will understandably wish to consult separate chapters -when tackling a new book in the series, for instance -and I hope that each is as self-contained and coherent as possible.It is, however, part of my concern and responsibility that interconnections should be pointed out and the shape of the whole appreciated; I therefore believe that, like The New Age and other specimens of romanfleuve, this book has more to offer if it is read from start to finish.The chapter on A New Athens first appeared in rather different form as "'Layer on Layer': A Reading of Hugh Hood's A New Athens" in John Moss's collection The Canadian Novel: Present Tense (Toronto: nc Press, 1985) and was subsequently reprinted in my own An Independent Stance (Erin, on: Porcupine's Quill, 1991).Parts of the chapters on "Roman-Fleuve" and "Hood and His Precursors" were delivered as a lecture, "In the Company of Proust and Powell: Hugh Hood and the Roman-Fleuve," at the Visionary Tradition conference at the University of Guelph, organized by J.R. (Tim) Struthers, in November 1999.A few sentences elsewhere are taken from brief reviews of
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.499 | 0.321 |
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".