The search theme in Alice Munro and Pedro Almodóvar: female characters
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Abstract
This article aims to reflect on the poetic images of the feminine, from the “theme of the search”, in the work of the Canadian writer Alice Ann Munro, more specifically in three short stories in the book Fugitive (2014) and the filmic transposition of these tales, by Pedro Almodóvar Caballero in the movie Juliet (2016). From the book, the selected stories were: "Occasion", "In a moment" and "Silence". These tales function as intertexts in Almodóvar's filmography. For the development of the article, we sought theoretical, critical and methodological support in comparative studies in literature and other arts, intermediate studies and studies on the theme of travel as existential displacements of female characters, which in their erasures configure the “theme of search ”, contemplating other potent derivations for literary creation as well as for filmic creation, for example, images of silence, archetypal images of the feminine, childhood memories, generating a movement of departures and arrivals rich in displacements of the feminine self. The study methodology used here allows us to reflect on the processes of intermediary and transcreation of the literary narrative to the filmic narrative, analyzing the basic operations of the filmic construction, which will result in the expansion and transformation of the literary sign. It has as theoretical bases Balogh (2005), Walter Benjamin (2010), Luis Claudio Costa (2010), Isla Duncan (2011), Michelle Gadpaille (1988), Brad Hooper (2008), George Woodcok (1986), Claus Clüver (2006), Santiago Kovadloff (2003), Elisabeth Badinter (1980), Mikhail Bakhtin (1996), among others.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".