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Record W1608570117 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511736155.005

Life writings

2011· book-chapter· en· W1608570117 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAutobiographical and Biographical Writing
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiographyNarrativeKnightLiteratureHistoryLife writingArtArt history

Abstract

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Writing about the self and writings about notable figures have long been the focus of life writings. Donald Winslow, for example, provides this definition of the term "life-writing": "In the narrower sense this term means biography, but in general it may include autobiography as well, so that it is actually a more inclusive term than biography, even though some people may consider the word biography to include autobiographical works, letters, diaries, and the like. Life-writing has been used since the eighteenth century, although it has never been as widely current as biography and autobiography since these words came into the language." When applied to transatlantic literary studies from 1680 to 1830, in particular, the term also includes the personal narrative, such as the spiritual, captivity, slave, and travel narrative, and works as disparate as Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative The Soveraignty and Goodness of God (1682), Samuel Sewall's Diary (1674–1729), Cotton Mather's Diary (1681–1724), Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal (1704), William Byrd's Diaries (1709–41), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters (1709–62), Jonathan Edwards's Personal Narrative (c. 1740), Elizabeth Ashbridge's Account (1755), Samson Occom's "A Short Narrative of My Life" (1768), John Woolman's Journal (1774), Andrew Burnaby's Travels…1759 and 1760 (1775), Elizabeth House Trist's Travel Diary (1784--5), Samuel Johnson's Letters (1731–84), Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789), and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (1791).

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.933
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.041
GPT teacher head0.173
Teacher spread0.132 · 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