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Record W1570176769

Celebrity and the Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen

2009· article· en· W1570176769 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Joel Deshaye

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Canadian Literature · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature: history, themes, analysis
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoetryPersonaMasculinityRivalrySociologyLiteratureArtPsychoanalysisPsychologyGender studiesHumanities
DOInot available

Abstract

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During the intense years of Irving Layton’s and Leonard Cohen’s celebrity, they engaged in a pointed rivalry through poetic dialogue. Cohen initiated and often sustained the dialogue by questioning Layton’s persona and his implied fear of being defined by his audience. Exploiting the problematic authority of masculinity and religion, they promoted each other’s celebrity; however, Layton and Cohen also fashioned their personas and critiques of each other within ironic representations, and both appeared wary of their culture’s extraordinary approval of them. The “line of inheritance” between these poets has been a subject of debate, but it is unquestionably in evidence in their poetic dialogue. Through that dialogue, Cohen formulated the reasons for his rejection of Layton’s Nietzschean religious pretense and its paradoxical you-can-have-it-all freedom. Cohen in effect grew out of the masculinity and religious pretense of literary celebrity: he developed through that tradition, matured, and then saw that it was not a good fit for him.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
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 score0.887
Threshold uncertainty score0.224

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0280.036
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.217 · 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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