Aberration, inestabilities and mythoclasm in the tales of Flannery O'Connor
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Abstract
espanolTomando como punto de partida conceptos utilizados por criticos de la literatura y cultura del Sur de los EEUU, tales como “Southern aberrations,” “Southern self-fashioning,” “instabilities” y “mythoclasm,” este articulo analiza los cuentos de Flannery O’Connor y su peculiar papel en la historia de la literatura surena. La autora senala que pese al supuesto conservadurismo de O’Connor, sus relatos subvierten las categorias tradicionales asociadas al Sur y anticipan tendencias surgidas posteriormente. Aunque la ficcion de O’Connor incluye los elementos mas representativos de la literatura surena tradicional —el humor, lo grotesco, la violencia, la religion, la raza y el racismo— y algunos de sus rasgos pueden evocar la estetica masculina y blanca de los Fugitives/Agrarians, el tratamiento iconoclasta de estos elementos es precursor del impulso revisionista y desmitificador de los escritores surenos contemporaneos, y anuncia el giro de la literatura del Sur hacia la parodia y la identidad postsurena EnglishTaking as a point of departure concepts introduced by contemporary critics of the South, such as “Southern aberrations,” “Southern self-fashioning,” “instabilities,” and “mythoclasm,” this paper analyses Flannery O’Connor’s tales and their peculiar role within the history of Southern writing. The author argues that despite O’Connor’s alleged conservatism, her tales undermine traditional categories related to the South and anticipate later tendencies. Thus, although O’Connor’s fiction incorporates the most distinctive elements of traditional Southern literature —humor, the grotesque, violence, religion, race and racism— and some of her views may evoke the white and male aesthetic of the Fugitives/Agrarians, the iconoclastic treatment of these elements prefigures the revisionist impulse of present-day Southern writing, suggesting the turn of Southern literature to parody and postsouthernnes
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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