Writing home in contemporary Canadian long poetry
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Abstract
This dissertation examines representations of the home in the long poems of bpNichol, Don McKay, Louise Halfe, and Dionne Brand.The organizing principle of the dissertation is that representing the home is the long poem's central intention, especially in the long poem's adjacent concern with expressing the operations of longing.The home, then, is the genre's primary object, the object for which it longs, producing unique but overlapping declarations in the following areas in this dissertation's poems: nostalgia (Greek for "the pain of homecoming"), ecology (Greek for "the study of the house"), kîwêtinohk (Cree for "carrying the bundles home"), and unheimlich (German for "the unhomely").Collectively, these terms function as etymological foundations on which the works of the dissertation combine the form of the long poem with its inherent preoccupation to thematize the home.Chapter 1 addresses bpNichol's usage of nostalgia in his long poem The Martyrology; by focussing on his paragrammatic saints of language, I argue that figures like St. And, St. Ranglehold, and (no) St. Algia are representations and embodiments of homelessness, which Nichol uses to evaluate the poem's generic themes of home and pain, especially as his long poem functions as a purposeful revision of the classical epic and its reliance on themes of national cohesion and homecoming.Chapter 2 examines Don
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".