Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker. Marvelous Transformations. an Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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Abstract
Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker. Marvelous Transformations. An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. (Peterborough: 2013, Broadview Press. Pp. 584. ISBN: 9-781-5548104-37) This engaging anthology of fairy and folk tales, edited with an atypical arrangement of material, the result of the two editors' challenge to readers to rethink their own knowledge of these tales, the individual collectors, and the functions and contexts of these tales in both their own timeframe and the readers' contemporary milieu. Throughout the ongoing discourse, readers are reminded of this challenge again and again, along with the fact that new ways of looking at the old tales are, and should be, in constant flux. The editors believe that the conversations, like the tales themselves, should never be considered static and worn. The editors' assurance of our commitment (as scholars, teachers, and editors) to exploring the complex relationship between literary history and folklore history, specifically the history of the field based collection of oral storytelling (16) fulfilled with this valuable compilation. The weighty volume separated into two major parts. The first section contains the tales themselves, often new translations of French and Italian tales which highlights one of the focuses of the collection of the creative interventions made by the translators themselves (15). Jones and Schacker do avail themselves of modern technology by providing access to six additional longer tales on an accompanying pass code-protected website but, unfortunately, other than access to these tales and the book's table of contents, the website fundamentally inert. The introductory essay for this section, penned by Jones and Schacker, provides their fluid blueprint on how to read a fairy tale, discussing Little Red Riding Hood as an exemplar. They maintain that the apparent timeless lessons of not talking to strangers, dangers in the unknown forest, rites of passage and sexual awakening inherent in this tale are only constructs of interpretations built on earlier interpretations without careful re-readings of the original texts. They conclude that the Grimms' Little Red Cap, on re-examination, is a story about the power of language and its use in discursive strategies (above and beyond simple politeness) (34), stressing their conviction of the importance of really reading and knowing the tales themselves rather than the standard critical interpretations that have become culturally accepted norms. The tales are arranged chronologically rather than by national constrictions, with representations of place and time rather than thematically, and concentrating on tales that reflect current academic interest. Part one further divided into five segments: early written traditions, early print traditions, romanticism to the Fin de Siecle, modern and postmodern tales and contemporary transcriptions and translations. Each complete tale, excerpt from longer pieces and poem has a concise introduction written by the editors, placing it with the context of contemporary contemplation and scholarship for both pedagogical activities and further research. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".