Bibliographic record
Abstract
The following MA thesis contains a novella of approximately 20,000 words with an accompanying expositional piece of approximately 7,000 words.It is best defined as a contemporary American Gothic.Set in a small Northern village in the United States on the border of Canada, we see the humble beginnings of one man and subsequently the parallel life of his daughter.Using the elements of light and dark, super-imposed with the four seasons of the year to represent the Gothic tropes of the sublime and the supernatural, the reader will witness the evolution and at times devolution of both characters throughout the years of their lives.This novella can best be described as an American Gothic, in which the environment itself acts as a component of common Gothic tropes.In the summer, the main characters and the small village's inhabitants enjoy the fruits of the lush easily farmable lands and use its expansive lake for recreation and relaxation.When winter and blustery weather arrive, we see its inhabitants forced inside their homes, placing them into small dark places, where boredom often leads to the common American escapism of alcoholism and drug addiction leading to the existence of domestic violence.This novella's main characters were inspired from my first year of literature, when I learned Lacan's theories of the mother and the father, and Jung's Sage and Great Mother archetypes.There is a strong focus on the existence of the dark side of the mind and human psyche that exist in the mundane aspects of American life, and consequently the bad decisions that define humanity.The reader will experience the peaks and valleys of the character's simple lives, and in the end their inevitable survival.Intertwined with shadows, monsters and things that go bump in the night, I hope you enjoy this contemporary American Gothic.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".