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Record W2499429638 · doi:10.1017/ccol0521861918.011

Women novelists, 1930s-1960s

2006· book-chapter· en· W2499429638 on OpenAlexaff
Ann Owens Weekes

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2006
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIrish and British Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIrishPoliticsEthnic groupGender studiesPrivilege (computing)LiteratureHistoryAestheticsSociologyPolitical scienceArtLawPhilosophy

Abstract

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As political trauma decreased and conditions improved slowly in the 1930s, the opportunity of higher education and the growth of a middle class increased the confidence and raised the profile of Irish women writers, after a national cultural revival in which they played a secondary role. The political rationale on all sides in the Anglo-Irish debate, while acknowledging and protesting ethnic and religious restrictions, had rested on unacknowledged gender and class restrictions which consumed or distorted many voices prior to independence. This national or political debate disappears in the work of most Irish women writers, although the related religious divide continues to be important, particularly in Northern Ireland. Ignoring divisive political debates enabled women to attend to the very distinctions and restrictions which buttressed these debates and continued to affect most women negatively. This close link between subject and writer, between the real and the fictional life, might have produced emotional or pedantic work, but the important novels of the period reflect the wisdom, detachment and humour of disciplined artists, related no doubt to the financial and educational privilege of the writers themselves. Uninterested in either the fantasies of the Irish Literary Revival or the formal experimentation of the modernists, subject matter being the locus of their attention, women novelists embraced realism, occasionally achieving poetic beauty.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.256
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.192 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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