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Record W1892577752 · doi:10.3138/utq.15003

Typological Impulses in <i>Samson Agonistes</i>

2015· article· en· W1892577752 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Christopher Kendrick

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Quarterly · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeFocalizationHistoricismChorusLiteratureUniversalizationPlot (graphics)HistoryOpposition (politics)Action (physics)PhilosophyAestheticsArtLawPoliticsPsychology

Abstract

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The article argues, through a comparison of Milton's play with Vondel's Holy Revenge and in canvassing and organizing some of the more consequent recent readings of Samson Agonistes, that two of Milton's narrative choices make for an especially reflexive typological play: (1) his rendition of Samson as a non-governing judge, a judge who leads his people not by organizing them but by acts of exemplary individual violence against the enemy; and (2) his historicist focalization of the tragic action – that is, his historicization of the Chorus along with the protagonists. This results in the synchronic inflection of the typological opposition between old and new dispensations, issuing in a narrative analysis of religious-social over-determination rather than simple succession. I then argue, in a close analysis of the pattern of inspirations or intimate impulses in the play, that Milton's tragic plot tracks continuing Christian universalization and privatization and attributes this ongoing reform to the revolution.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.066

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0220.034
Scholarly communication0.0110.005
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.240 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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