The Newfoundland outport novel; perceptions of place and identity. 1858-2014.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis traces the development of a unique phenomenon in place-based literature identified as the outport novel genre. The Newfoundland fishing villages, known as outports, have inspired both insider and outsider writers. The cultural importance of the iconic outport is in evidence in the arts, literature and music of Newfoundland as expressions of the cultural nationalism of the island. However, the outport novel reveals a more nuanced and comprehensive overview of Newfoundland cultural identity over time. Individual and group experience of place have an impact on the formation of personal and communal identity. Bernice Morgan was the first local novelist to explicitly link Newfoundland identity to ‘the culture of place’ in 2003. In this thesis, the evolution of the genre is explored and analysed through five case studies at strategic points in time. The first Newfoundland novel, New Priest in Conception Bay (1858) by R.T.S. Lowell, established the outport as the setting for the local genre. The study ends with an analysis of Michael Crummey’s Sweetland (2014). The academic field of literary criticism has generated considerable interest in the Newfoundland novel since Confederation with Canada from both insiders and outsiders. What the outport novels represent and why their themes are so important in cultural expressions of Newfoundland identity is their role in transposing the underlying norms and values of the outport community into a future Newfoundland consciousness.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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.
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".