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Record W7136008371

Dystopia in the Works of J.D. Kurtness and Christiane Vadnais

2025· dissertation· fr· W7136008371 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Anna Pátková

Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Repository (National Repository of Grey Literature) · 2025
Typedissertation
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEcocriticism and Environmental Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDystopiaNarrativeRelation (database)HumanityOrder (exchange)Key (lock)
DOInot available

Abstract

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in English The bachelor's thesis will explore the dystopian worlds depicted in Aquariums by J. D. Kurtness and Faunes by Christiane Vadnais, two contemporary Quebec authors whose narratives challenge conventional notions of the end of humanity and civilization. The aim of this paper will be to explore how these two writers depart from traditional dystopian narratives. First, we will introduce the genre of dystopia and its key features from a literary historical perspective. We will then introduce the writers and the contemporary theoretical framework that includes ecocriticism, the post-Anthropocene, and Abhumanism. In the practical part, we will analyze and compare the two works mentioned in order to define the different elements that depart from or, on the contrary, meet the traditional narrative resources and themes of dystopia. The thesis will also focus on the position of man in relation to nature.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.421
Threshold uncertainty score0.838

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.020
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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