Quest : finding form in children's literature
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The thesis will situate the novel Quest within the context of children's literature. It will refer to popular children's books with similar themes and styles, specifically J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (1911), The Neverending Story (1983) by Michael Ende, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997-2007). Quest is a fantasy novel aimed at nine to twelve year olds; it tells the story of Max, a boy who uses his imagination as an emotional shield. After a perilous journey from island to island, each one more fantastical than the next, Max learns to reconnect with his absent father. The critical element examines the role of heroes and villains within children's literature, while also looking at the contradictory figure of the 'heroic-villain' and other relevant elements of character. I take an essentially Formalist perspective in order to analyse Quest on a structural level, hoping to demonstrate that complex character arcs and themes can be realised from a strict foundation of basic rules.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it