Loving Weimar Berlin with a Smile and Angst: Irmgard Keun and Christopher Ishewood
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The recent edition of Irmgard Keun's novel Das kunstseidene Madchen (1932, 2005, trans. The Artificial Silk Girl) restores the original style by removing the normalizing revisions of 1951 of grammar and syntax. 1 The first-person narrator's idiosyncratic style was a major cause for the immediate success of the novel at home as the year's best seller. The style is essential to its full effect as a comic narration of a pathetic story. In the words of the original publisher's announcement, Bin drolliger Humor macht das Buch amusant und kurzweilig, aber er verbirgt nicht, wie traurig im Grunde dieses fur unsere Zeit so charakteristische Schicksal ist (A droll humour makes the book amusing and diverting, but it does not hide how sad this fate, which is so characteristic for our times, basically is) (Arend and Martin 220). 2
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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".