Transcription, Transmission, and Transgression of World War I Battlefield Experience in Three Mid-twentieth-century Canadian Novels
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Abstract
Personal accounts of unutterable and unimaginable war experiences that Canadian soldiers lived through on European battlefields during World War I contrast rather sharply with heroic – yet somewhat emotionally detached (though statistically and technically precise) – reports and accounts of the deeds of Canadian troops in history books and other official documents. Mid-twentieth-century fiction inevitably tried to focus on these encounters with the abominable in order to make it possible for authors (as well as readers) with immediate experience to process psychologically – and make a final closure of – what they endured in the battlefield. There is a surprisingly high number of post-WWII novels published from the 1940s to the 1970s that deal, at least in part, or even indirectly, with topics and experiences linked to WWI. While, as suggested above, the war experience tends to be described with astonishing precision that almost overlaps with diaristic obsession, the psychological treatment of the trauma that had arisen in the war had, on the other hand, a tendency to be neglected. This interesting thematic niche of post-WWII, mid-twentieth-century novels revolving around WWI will be analysed from two theoretical perspectives. The first one – a rather general and decidedly literature-oriented triad of transcription, transmission, and transgression of the battlefield experience – will be a point of departure of the analysis, including some of the classic theories of trauma. This primary triad will beoverlapped (yet not necessarily replaced) with the seven stages of grief that psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross developed originally in her 1969 book On Death and Dying. This second theoretical layer will thus both fill in the aforementioned void in the psychological treatment of the issue, and will be also used to assess to what extent individual texts, and their protagonists, were able to transcend their individual psychological scars and traumas.
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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 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".