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Modernist Opera’s Stigmatized Subjects

2016· book· en· W2475634808 on OpenAlex
Sherry D. Lee

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Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2016
Typebook
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOperaSubjectivityAestheticsPersonhoodRepresentation (politics)MetaphorInterpretation (philosophy)Sociocultural evolutionArtMusicalLiteratureSociologyPhilosophyEpistemologyLinguisticsAnthropology

Abstract

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Abstract While nineteenth-century opera saw its share of damaged and acutely afflicted bodies, and its music more frequently aestheticized suffering than it either objectified or sympathized with it, the early twentieth century saw a shift in emphasis with regard to the staged and musical representation of subjects stigmatized by congenital or permanent physical disabilities. This essay considers the ways in which the musicodramatic framework for interpretation, spectatorship, and identification in modernist opera (including depictions by Strauss, Schreker, and Zemlinsky of dwarves and hunchbacks) is subtly reconfigured according to shifting modernist aesthetic and sociocultural contexts, such that the visual and sonic signification of physical disability is conceptualized as a kind of metaphor for damaged subjectivity or personhood—a status not infrequently understood as encapsulating the broader fate of the modern self.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.860
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.196
Teacher spread0.158 · 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