Text, Context and Sex: Gender Construction and Religious Identity in Robert Musil's <i>Unions</i>
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Abstract
A perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, looking around to see if anybody notices it-and to make sure that somebody does. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the IdolsClaudine and Veronica were perfect women.Claudine was sexually promiscuous.Perfecting her second marriage consumed her energy as she struggled between the deep mystical union and love she shared with her husband and the physical desire she felt for other nameless men who preyed on her in transient environments.Veiled Veronica the Virgin was tempted to give up her self-imposed hermitage for the love of a real man, yet quietly, determinedly she chose to remain in the confines of her cold, dark, and damp habitat and to give her love to the illusory man.These women are main characters in Unions, a collection of two novellas (The Perfecting of a Love and The Temptation of Quiet Veronica) by the Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) published in 1911.Musil, best known for his unfinished magnum opus, The Man Without Qualities, is considered a central figure in the modernist and early postmodernist movements in the development of twentieth-century literature (see Poupard, 223ff).Literary critics have likened Musil's style of writing, in Unions in particular, to impressionism, with a stream of consciousness style whose closest comparison is James Joyce or Gertrude Stein (see Peacock 255).In twentieth-century literary criticism, Musil is noted for his contribution to the history of modern identity (see Johnson).I will explore the
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".