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Record W2147453923 · doi:10.3138/tric.31.1.57

Kneading You: Performative Meta-Auto/Biography in <i>Perfect Pie</i>

2010· article· en· W2147453923 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Jenn Stephenson

Bibliographic record

VenueTheatre Research in Canada · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicNarrative Theory and Analysis
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerformative utteranceNarrativeDialogicBiographySelfCharacter (mathematics)Power (physics)MetanarrativePsychology of selfAestheticsLiteratureSociologyPsychoanalysisArtPsychologyEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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In the last two decades, it has become an accepted principle in psychology that the sense of self depends on autobiography. Without the ability to organize experience through narration, arguably one cannot have a coherent self. If one’s self is indeed dependent on autobiography, then that same narratively constituted fictive self is especially susceptible to erosion and erasure through memory loss and narrative disability. In Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie, Patsy is such a character, suffering from trauma-related amnesia that inhibits the realization of a full extended self. Although on the one hand, Patsy’s status as a fictive character leaves her vulnerable to the power of words to undermine the stability of a narratively generated self, on the other hand, her ontological situation as a character born in words also grants her significant power to wield that same performative power to write her self. This article will examine the dialogic self-authoring strategy that Patsy adopts to generate multi-vocal autobiography, weaving thematically associated stories across disparate nested fictional worlds. Ultimately, Patsy’s potential cure lies not in the revelation of an objectively-verifiable historical truth but rather in the pie-making, theatre-making, self-making process of continued reiterative 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)0.004
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 score0.060
Threshold uncertainty score0.119

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.025
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.105
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.205 · 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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