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Record W1579259768

Romanticizing Sylvia Plath: Feminism and Literary Biography

2005· article· en· W1579259768 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Elizabeth Willson Gordon

Bibliographic record

VenueThirdspace · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRomanceBiographyLiteratureRelation (database)ContradictionGeniusPoetryIdeologyFeminismArtPhilosophyPoliticsSociologyGender studiesEpistemologyLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Reading literary biographies, and particularly the biographies of women who were writers, raises important questions about how to understand literary productions and what relationship that work has to a life. Two biographies of Sylvia Plath, Anne StevensonA¢â‚¬â„¢s Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath and Jacqueline RoseA¢â‚¬â„¢s The Haunting of Sylvia Plath , propose to interpret her work and its relationship to her life in fundamentally different ways, and yet what is striking is the underlying indebtedness to the Romantic tradition of the Artist in both books. The concept of A¢â‚¬Eœgenius,A¢â‚¬â„¢ closely associated with the Romantic tradition, invokes gender as the historical definition of A¢â‚¬EœgeniusA¢â‚¬â„¢ excludes women. StevensonA¢â‚¬â„¢s more traditional biography seeks to explain PlathA¢â‚¬â„¢s poetry through Romantic tropes, inserting Plath into the tradition, while Rose proposes to discuss PlathA¢â‚¬â„¢s textual being only. In RoseA¢â‚¬â„¢s text the relation of PlathA¢â‚¬â„¢s work to the Romantic tradition is more complex and RoseA¢â‚¬â„¢s biography engages in a contradiction when it still invokes the significance of the woman behind the texts, a move necessary in part for feminist reasons. For both authors, feminist investment is in conflict with the unacknowledged Romantic ideology shaping their texts. Both authors challenge the Romantic tradition but do not ultimately undermine it. The use of the Romantic tradition in relation to Plath opens the discussion up to larger questions regarding the criteria used to value work, the figure of the artist, and how literary work is produced.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.969
Threshold uncertainty score0.811

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.193 · 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 teacher head, 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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