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Record W2155309223 · doi:10.3138/md.49.1.76

<i>Ivanov</i>: The Perils of Typicality

2006· article· en· W2155309223 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRussian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObjectivity (philosophy)Rhetorical questionRhetoricCriticismEpistemologyPhilosophyAestheticsLawPolitical scienceLinguistics

Abstract

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It was Turgenev who taught Chekhov that, in an age of censorship, objectivity could have the force of polemic without overtly disclosing its critical intents. In the appropriate rhetorical situation, objectivity can function as a mode of “hidden polemic,” a crucial part of the weaponry of the ironist. Even if the objectivity of Turgenev’s presentation did not always guarantee that provocative voices and attitudes would evade the censor’s pen, the mask of objectivity was a subtle rhetorical tool for any writer concerned with social and political criticism.2 Does Ivanov need to be recognized as a play exploiting the rhetoric of objectivity? Can one deploy a rhetoric of objectivity and yet remain committed to an ethics of objectivity? In polemical terms, objectivity has it limits, since, functioning as an ironic mode, its “non-statement” is a severe form of understatement – and, as such, subject to the vagaries of indeterminacy. It is the threat of such indeterminacy, I think, that leads Chekhov to create a play in which the objective is always in tension with the grotesque and the satirical: but understatement counterbalanced by statement still runs the risk of remaining indeterminate.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.744
Threshold uncertainty score0.264

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.263 · 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