La pastorale nordique dans «La Petite Poule d'Eau» et «Alexandre Chenevert» de Gabrielle Roy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis aims to show how the North in Gabrielle Roy's work is a liminal figurative space that, far from freeing individuals from society's constraints, allows them to reconnect with it in a simplified way. It argues that the characters' "northern" experiences and the mode of their actions, in La Petite Poule d'Eau (The Water Hen) and Alexandre Chenevert (The Cashier), are best defined as pastoral, because they result from an unresolved conflict – a contradiction – between their moral ideals and their passions. Torn between living a solitary life and a communal one, Roy's characters are unable to choose and forced to seek a form of compromise between these two desires. Their ontological uncertainty also sheds light on the tension between the idyllic and romance in Roy's novels, a tension that the liminal location of the northern space illustrates and allows to explore. By bringing together two seemingly antagonistic ideas – the North and the pastoral – and by examining how such an interaction unfolds in the writer's first two "northern" novels, this thesis wishes to underline the dual nature of Roy's characters, novels, and North.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".