Perte, déchéance et enfermement. Images de la vieillesse dans le roman québécois
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Unlike researchers in the United States and France, researchers in Quebec have demonstrated little interest in examining the experience of aging as represented in literature. This thesis proposes to explore the concept of aging as depicted in Quebecois literature. With the rise in life expectancy, aging now consists of three stages, i.e., midlife, the third age and the fourth age. As demonstrated in the works of the authors examined, each stage is characterized by specific features and challenges. Midlife is seen as a transition, the passage by which one journeys from youth to age. The subject looks in the mirror and is forced to confront an image that is growing old, the confirmation that time is passing. As such, he or she has the disturbing experience of living on borrowed time while waiting for the calamity of old age to happen, followed by the inevitable. Then, one day terror strikes. The subject looks in the mirror, and the image reflected is noneother than that of an old man or woman. Denial is no longer possible. Though some eventually resign themselves to having grown old, others cannot accept this fate, but all look for consolation. The reality is grim, from every point of view. Over time, age takes a greater toll – it becomes a humiliating defeat. At the end, the subject must find a way out, an escape at all costs. Death, for so long feared, becomes not only a fundamental right, but the only hope for freedom.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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".