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Record W2107486564 · doi:10.21083/irss.v31i0.496

H. Gustav Klaus, <i>James Kelman</i>

2008· article· en· W2107486564 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Aaron Kelly

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Review of Scottish Studies · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicContemporary Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContext (archaeology)PoliticsSociologyClass (philosophy)Media studiesEpistemologyLawPolitical scienceHistoryPhilosophy

Abstract

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Kelman but also to working-class literature more broadly from the industrial age to the present.This book ably sets Kelman's writing in the context of the enormous social dislocations of late capitalism, de-regulation, the so-called Free Market, Thatcherite and Blairite Britain, all of which signal an assault upon traditional forms of working-class identity, community, and experience.And it is of course precisely that assault and its effects with which Kelman's work grapples.Klaus' survey is lucid and comprehensive, offering brief but detailed and considered appraisals of all of Kelman's novels and short story collections, in addition to Kelman's plays -which sadly often escape critical attention -and Kelman's essays which themselves offer a key means of understanding his motivations and interests.Klaus' study is impressive in its capacity to understand and illuminate both the political commitments and backdrop of Kelman's writing and its literary and aesthetic skills, techniques and influences.For, as Klaus observes, Kelman's provocative work is often either dismissed or celebrated in the very broad terms of media-generated controversy and the supposed issue of "bad" language that can result in Kelman's actual writerly skill being unconsidered or at best under undervalued.In addition to offering a knowledgeable and engaging affirmation of the importance of Kelman's work that enables the reader to think deeply about its literary and political context, Klaus' book contains a valuable annotated secondary bibliography which will particularly help students and researchers as well as the interested general reader.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.598
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.045
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.247 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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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Published2008
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