Landscapes of Survival: Transplant and Sustenace in Willa Cather's Canadian Writing and Experience
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As many critics have pointed out, Willa Cather’s main theme is the meeting of the intellectual and cultural inheritances of Europe and the ‘great fact’ of the settlement of the New World, whether in Nebraska, New Mexico or Quebec. Bearing in mind Margaret Atwood’s imagery of survival, I will try to show how these images relate to Cather’s pervasive theme of Old World immigrants carving out a place of beauty and salvation in the New World. Henceforth, I’ll attempt to expand on the motives which led Cather to see Canada, namely in Shadows on the Rock (1931), as a land of possibilities, a geography which responds to her characters’ need for redefining both their physical and interior borders. My reading of Cather’s Canadian writings and experience has met and enlightened several of the issues which define Canada’s culture: the meeting of the Old and New World, geography as the great fact of Canadian identity, and the multicultural composition of its social tissue. Moreover, Cather’s Canadian writings reiterate Canada as a country of possibilities, one which provides landscapes of survival for characters in search of sustenance and looking for new forms and visions.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.053 | 0.041 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| 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".