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Record W2327477519 · doi:10.1093/escrit/cgu011

Tying the Knot in Othello

2014· article· en· W2327477519 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEssays in Criticism · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTyingKnot (papermaking)PhilosophyAnalogyAction (physics)ArtEpistemologyComputer sciencePhysics

Abstract

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SOME OF THE MYSTERIOUS STRENGTH of Othello derives from the fact that powerful forces are at work even before the play opens. When, exactly, does the action of the play begin, and under whose initiative? Such questions arise equally with other tragedies, of course, but in some respects the most useful analogy comes from a comedy. When things reach an impasse in Twelfth Night – Viola's disguise has involved her in an impossible love triangle with Orsino and Olivia – the plot is represented as a knot: ‘O time, thou must untangle this, not I. / It is too hard a knot for me t'untie’.1 Viola's description resembles the scheme that Aristotle refers to as desis-lusis (tying and untying): ‘The [events] outside [the play], and often some inside [provide] the “tying”, the rest [is] the “untying”’.2 This scheme seems to be a revised version of the Poetics' earlier account of a unified action in tragedy as having a beginning, middle, and end. In George Whalley's view, it ‘implies a firmer and more comprehensive principle of unity in the plot’, for, Whalley goes on to explain, Here Aristotle recognizes that the poet selects an arche (both source and beginning …) from among the propepragmata (things done before) and makes this the starting point for his praxis; even though the starting point may be ‘outside’ – that is, not acted out in the play – it is nevertheless the point from which the arc or trajectory of the tragic action springs. … The ‘tying’, anchored outside the acted-action, is one moment (? or vector) of a single energy system, the ‘untying’ is the complementary moment.3

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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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.861
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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)0.0010.000

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 head0.054
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.243 · 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