My Words Should Catch Your Words: myth, writing and social ritual in A.L. Kennedy’s <i>Everything You Need</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On the occasion of a reading for the Aye Write! Festival in Glasgow, A.L. Kennedy spoke about her experiences as a student of drama and showed her conviction that using another’s voice (the specific example was acting roles from Shakespeare’s plays) ‘unleashes a force that transforms the actor as well as the members of the audience.’1 Kennedy’s novel Everything You Need, first published by Cape in 1999, offers a study of such transformative force of voice.2 In Everything You Need one’s voice is envisioned as inevitably accommodating others’ voices that speak through it. This understanding of voice poses questions regarding manifestations of authority and control of narrating agency. Who else tells our story when we define our subjective identity through it? The answer that the novel proposes is that ‘our story’ is not only the story of ourselves, but also a story about ourselves as characters in socialisation scenarios we derive from myths that guide our acts in the social world. The visions derived from myths that guide the narrative presentation of ourselves to ourselves and others, and our fantasising our identities, can be constraining or empowering, as, for instance, Marina Warner points out:
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".