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Record W2899132055 · doi:10.3968/10520

Leo Finkle: The Embodiment of Spiritual Rebirth in “The Magic Barrel”

2018· article· en· W2899132055 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Chen Dang

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in literature and language · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDignityMAGIC (telescope)JudaismCompassionEpitomeHumanismAestheticsPhilosophySociologyPsychoanalysisLiteratureLawTheologyPsychologyArtPolitical science

Abstract

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Leo Finkle, the protagonist in Jewish American author Bernard Malamud’s famous short story “The Magic Barrel”, is a representative embodiment of universal spiritual rebirth, especial for the Jewish people who have suffered a lot in their specific history and culture. In his writing, Astro (1977) once remarks, “Malamud often uses a prison motif to evoke any place or circumstance which restricts man’s freedom of development”. The severity of his characters’ suffering is a necessity — only great affliction can bring out their hidden spiritual force and their understanding of their own capacity for dignity and compassion. Leo Finkle, realizing his own dignity and his responsibility to others, comes out of his isolated zone and steps out to achieve his own spiritual rebirth. Based on psychoanalysis, this paper attempts to address inward struggles of Leo Finkle, an epitome of all humankind, and explore how he achieves his spiritual rebirth when he is confronted with conflicting reality, through which, we can also have a profound understanding of Malamud’s humanist care not only for Jewish people, but also for all human beings, that is to say, his concern about universal humanities such as mercy, redemption, spiritual rebirth so on and so forth. In this way, we may pay more attention to Jewish people and other marginalized social groups in today’s society.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0080.020
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.028
GPT teacher head0.355
Teacher spread0.327 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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