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Record W1999757365 · doi:10.3138/cras.2013.032

The Joke’s on You: Invalid as Comic in <i>The Diary of Alice James</i>

2014· article· en· W1999757365 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Haley French

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJokeComicsMeaning (existential)LiteratureTone (literature)PsychoanalysisLaughterTransformative learningAestheticsGazeSilencePhilosophyPsychologySociologyArtEpistemology

Abstract

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Abstract: This paper examines the function of humour in the diary of Alice James, specifically its relation to her project of self-authorship and her desire to subvert the debility inflicted by the sympathetic gaze. By discussing her illness in terms of its status as a disability and noting the intersections between disability studies and humour theory, I am able to explore the transgressive and transformative potential of James’s humour as she simultaneously performs and rejects the terms of her own abjection. While many critics take note of the peculiar comedic tone that James adopts in her discussions of traditionally grave subjects, very few attach any significant meaning to this essential aspect of the text. This paper seeks to suggest that James belongs to a tradition of disability humour that attempts to reclaim the speaker’s own subjective experience with suffering through a combination of the tragic and the comic.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0150.016
Scholarly communication0.0080.007
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.259 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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