The Name of the River: A Creative and Critical Approach to Reading and Writing the Southwestern Ontario Short Story
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This project approaches the study of the Canadian short story both creatively and critically, with a specific focus on the short story in Southwestern Ontario or “Souwesto.” In a critical analysis of, first, Sherwood Anderson, then E. Pauline Johnson, Alice Munro, and Douglas Glover through the lens of what Lee Maracle calls “Indigenous responsibility” and framed with the thinking of cultural theorists such as Thomas King and Frederick Moten, this project argues that a shift from looking at the short story to looking with the short story may offer new possibilities for a multivalent and specifically an “Indigenized” study of Canadian literature. The three short stories that comprise the creative portion of the project engage the question: how do I, as a white, male, “Canadian” writer, position myself responsibly within the landscape of Canadian cultural production, and what does it mean to write short stories in a responsible way?
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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 | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.045 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".