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Record W2908011117 · doi:10.3968/7069

On Word-Play in The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme

2015· article· en· W2908011117 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Haixia Guo

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in literature and language · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPostmodernismNothingReputationContext (archaeology)LiteratureLinguisticsAestheticsPsychologySociologyHistoryEpistemologyArtPhilosophySocial science

Abstract

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The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme recounts a quite simple story but it won Barthelme a well-deserved reputation; the most significant element for the achievements concerning this novel lies in the writing itself, which represents a splendid application of postmodern writing techniques, especially word-play. In this novel, Barthelme manages to transform the traditional rational language in a playing manner. This employment contributes The Dead Father as a typical postmodern work, which reflects the postmodern society in Barthelme’s eyes and displays prominently Barthelme’s intention and talents to evolve the literary writing techniques. Nothing of the traditional literature is safe from his challenging pen in the context of this novel: words, phrases, sentences or fables are equally dismentaled and deconstructed.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.720
Threshold uncertainty score0.277

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)0.0000.000

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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.252 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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