Metamemoir in Wayne Johnston's Baltimore's Mansion
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this essay, Jacob Sandler investigates the tactics used by Newfoundlander Wayne Johnston to harness the power of metafiction in the context of memoir. Sandler argues that there are distinct tensions between fact and fiction in the genre of the memoir generated by the “constructed nature of memory, the self, and life writing.” Sandler compellingly argues that Johnston’s Baltimore’s Mansion defies a central convention of memoir—to actively limit and silence the constructed nature of identity formation through memory — by drawing attention to the processes that shape Johnston’s multi-generational account of Newfoundland identity. In particular, he argues that Newfoundland heritage, stories, and memory, both individual and cultural, are devices used by the text to illustrate the constructed nature of the identities of the text’s protagonists. By engaging in this study, Sandler also makes a broader claim: that memoirs that employ these tactics are best categorized as “metamemoir.” Emily Ballantyne
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it