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Record W2085645018 · doi:10.3138/utq.83.3.659

<i>The Waves</i> as Exploration of (An)aesthetic of Absence

2014· article· en· W2085645018 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
J. Hillis Miller

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Quarterly · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicModernist Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFeelingAestheticsLiteraturePhilosophyHistoryArtEpistemology

Abstract

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Virginia Woolf’s The Waves demonstrates how an (an)aesthetic of absence might be dramatized in a work of fiction. It presupposes a vast impersonal memory bank that stores everything that has ever happened, every thought or feeling of every person. This data bank, however, is absent, inaccessible to direct experience. The thoughts and feelings it stores, moreover, are always already turned into appropriate language, complete with figures of speech for sensations and feelings that cannot be said literally. These vivid memories are involuntary, to borrow a word from Henri Bergson’s memory theory. They have been forgotten completely and suddenly “come to the top” and begin re-enacting themselves as present occurrences in vivid detail before the mind’s eye. All the characters in The Waves, to different degrees and in different ways, are haunted with the sense of a secret absent centre to which they are attached and that they glimpse but cannot reach.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.026
Scholarly communication0.0090.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.011
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.184 · 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

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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