Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock (1931), the author describes a French father and a daughter who come to Canada under the order of Count Frontenac, a governor general in 1697. Auclair, the father, leads a passive life and can be seen to embody a kind of typically successful life as a pioneer immigrants as devised by Cather. At the end of this story, Auclair is completely satisfied with his unchanging life in Canada though he is a different type of immigrant from Alexandra in O ! Pioneers (1913), in which Cather describes an energetic immigrant who positively grabs a success for herself. This essay aims to explore changing forms of success in Cather's novels and the possibility of "passive success" for immigrants. While Auclair and Cécile hate the French social system and feel lucky for living in a peaceful place far from France, they cannot put up with the bare Canadian wilderness and live only in Quebec, the city rich with French culture. They are protected by Canadian geographical features far from Europe as well as by French imperialistic power. We can see how Cather tries to construct lives as steady as possible for immigrants through the representation of Auclair's life. The pioneers in this novel, Count Frontenac, Mother Catherine de Saint-Augustin, Jeanne Le Ber, must lead hard lives and protect general people like Auclair. They sacrifice themselves for others and transcend the question of whether they are happy or not. Through Auclair, Cather shows a realistic happiness for general immigrants.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.003 |
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".