Canon disorders: gendered perspectives on literature and film in Canada and de United States
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This collection addresses a range of key issues around the relationship between gender and canon in the North American literary and filmic production in English of the last twenty five years. Invariably based on close readings of the texts/films in question, the essays hereby included implicitly define gender in the most encompassing sense, which would include traditional (white and middleclass) feminist analyses, queer theory as well as studies of masculinities. They thus reflect and embrace the opinion that, by the end of the 1980s, the emergence of gender studies as a promising new area of research and critical inquiry, one in which both men and women had a space, expanded the feminist agenda from the study of the female subject to the analyses of the various social constructions of gender, including masculinities, studies of sexuality and sexual orientation. Additionally, the essays that follow evaluate and articulate from a variety of angles the influence of gender studies on the current process of canon renewal, drawing connections across disciplines as well as between gender theories and other contemporary discourses such as post-structuralism, post-colonialism, and globalization studies. The collection includes the following original contributions: Hanging out the Laundry: Heroines in the Midst of Dirt and Cleanliness by Aritha Van Herk (University of Calgary); Blood Road Leads to Promise: A Gendered Approach to Canadas Past in Gail Anderson-Dargatzs The Cure for Death by Lightning by Eva Darias Beautell (University of La Laguna); Surviving the Metaphorical Condition in Elle: Douglas Glovers Impersonation of the First French Female in Canada by María Jesús Hernáez Lerena (University of La Rioja); Representing Hegemonic Masculinity: Epistemology and the Performance of Male Identity in Documentary Film by Vicente R. Rosselló Hernández (University of La Laguna); The Dismantling of The Oedipal Dyad in Two American Women Poets: The Dynamics of Maternal Desire by Dulce Mª Rodríguez González (University of La Laguna); Too bad mihijita was morena: Anzaldúas Autobiographical Encounters with Her Mother by María Henríquez Betancor (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria); Ganzfeld; or theOntology of Escape in Robert Kroetschs The Hornbooks of Rita K by Mladen Kurajica (University of La Laguna).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".