Some Regimented Evening: The Relationship between Commentary and Representation in "The Dead" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As a verb, “worry” has roots in Old English and refers to one person trying to hurt another (choking, harassing, irritating). In the nineteenth century, according to the OED , it changed: it become a noun that referred to an anxious state of mind, a sense of dread tied to interior fretting rather than external threat. Eliot’s Prufrock and Joyce’s Gabriel are, as Helen Pinsent shows, defined by this distinctly modern and modernist worry. Moreover, it cannot be escaped through fantasy even as worry isolates these two protagonists from their social worlds by drawing them inward into repetition, reflection, and regret. Trapped in what Francis O’Gorman has dubbed “worry’s familiar grooves,” the iteration of the underwhelming overwhelms them, on terms that, as Pinsent argues, are both distinctly modernist and distinguishable from each other. —Julia Wright
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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) | 0.000 | 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".