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Record W2035489880 · doi:10.3138/md.53.3.311

“Ladies’ Voices Give Pleasure”: Gossip, Drama, and Gertrude Stein

2010· article· en· W2035489880 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Chad Bennett

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGossipDramaPleasureAestheticsAgency (philosophy)Identity (music)Space (punctuation)SensibilitySociologyImpromptuQueerArtPsychologyVisual artsLiteratureGender studiesSocial psychologyPhilosophyComputer scienceLinguistics

Abstract

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This essay argues that the idea, idiom, and performance of gossip play a formative queer role in Gertrude Stein's innovative drama. In Ladies’ Voices (1916), an exemplary early effort to listen to gossip as a formal model, Stein productively negotiates her drama's competing desires for agency and disembodiment by reimagining the voice of gossip – which belongs both to everybody (what everybody's saying) and no body in particular (you didn't hear it from me) – as a theatrical space in which one might float on the sound of dish, both courting and resisting the embodiments of identity and performance.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.021
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.206 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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