‘House of mirrors’: The sentient house as homosocial space in Andrew Pyper’s The Guardians
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In The Poetics of Space ([1958] 1969), Gaston Bachelard proposes that ‘The house is a “psychic state”’, and focuses on the childhood house – specifically ‘the house we were born in’ – because he believes that with this ‘first’ house one establishes a ‘passionate liaison’. Andrew Pyper’s novel The Guardians (2011) is ostensibly a haunted house novel about four men battling a malevolent house, but the novel is also about the unique love the men express for and with each other – what masculinity scholars Hammarén and Johansson would label ‘horizontal homosociality’ or ‘a more sensitive and intimate masculinity’. Ultimately, the malevolent house provides the only venue in which the men can express this intimate love for each other. I argue that the house’s relationship with the men is, fundamentally, a ‘passionate liaison’; for while the men were not born in the house and so it is not literally their ‘first’ house, the house forces key rites of passage that bind the men and the house together forever. With the house’s destruction at the novel’s conclusion the male relationships are constrained and hollowed out by hegemonic masculine expectations and stereotypes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.050 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".