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Record W1809597915

An Ecological Analysis: the Sense of Loss from Heart of Darkness

2011· article· en· W1809597915 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Weilin Li

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in literature and language · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicJoseph Conrad and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEcocriticismDarknessEcologyKey (lock)LiteratureHistoryEnvironmental ethicsAestheticsPhilosophySociologyArtBiologyBotany
DOInot available

Abstract

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Conrad is universally renowned for his cynical observations and ecological philosophy as well as his exceptional writing skills. Most of his works, especially Heart of Darkness , include intensive descriptions of the human-nature relationship which has been distorted by the ceaseless expansion of industrialization and imperialism, and thus fall into the category of ecoliterature. The ecological point of view refreshes the studies on Conrad’s writings, and enables people to re-recognize the value of his stories. This paper analyzes Heart of Darkness from this new ecological scope by exploring the implied human-nature dichotomy and the resultant impact on both sides. By discussing the mutual loss, the paper attempts to shed light on the contemporary environmental problems, and to present a comprehensive assessment of Conrad’s works. Key words : Joseph Conrad; Heart of Darkness ; Ecocriticism; Human/Nature Dichotomy

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.073
Scholarly communication0.0120.010
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.253 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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