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Record W4385876527 · doi:10.30853/phil20230376

Mixanthropic characters and their role in the graphic novel ‘Angel Catbird’ by M. Atwood

2023· article· en· W4385876527 on OpenAlex
Anna Nikolaevna Isaeva

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenuePhilology Theory & Practice · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicComics and Graphic Narratives
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComicsMythologyOriginalityConsciousnessPerspective (graphical)LiteratureArtComputer scienceHistorySociologyVisual artsPhilosophyEpistemologyAnthropology

Abstract

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The aim of the study is to determine why the famous Canadian writer Margaret Atwood turns to mythological characters that have a hybrid, or mixanthropic, appearance in her graphic novel ‘Angel Catbird’ (2016). The paper examines the history of the development of the comic book genre and its special format, the graphic novel; emphasis is also placed on the different attitudes to this genre among Russian and foreign researchers. Moreover, the features of M. Atwood’s graphic novel ‘Angel Catbird’ and its differences from other works in this genre are considered. The study concludes with an analysis of the nature of the main characters and their connection not only with human nature (in a narrow sense), but also with the peculiarities of the development of Canadian literature and culture in general (in a broad sense). The scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the paper considers the system of images of the novel ‘Angel Catbird’ from the perspective of the duality of their consciousness and mixanthropic appearance. In addition, it is the first time that M. Atwood’s graphic novel has been analysed taking into account the use of mythological images and traditions of different peoples. As a result, it has been proved that the use of mixanthropic characters in the graphic novel is linked to the multifunctionality of their images.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
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 score0.616
Threshold uncertainty score0.492

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.226 · 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