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Record W2945859634 · doi:10.1017/9781787445116.008

Disappearing Act: Felicitas Hoppe’s Hoppe and Australian Myths

2019· other· en· W2945859634 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Andrew Hurley

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAustralian History and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMythologyPsychologyArtLiterature

Abstract

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Introduction IN THE SECOND CHAPTER of Felicitas Hoppe's 2012 bogus autobiography- cum-travel novel, Hoppe , we learn how the biographical subject, “Hoppe,” encounters a historical German-Australian figure, the explorer and scientist Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–48?). The iconic Leichhardt is well known within Australian culture and has given his name to suburbs, streets, and more besides. Historian Darrell Lewis has even recently described him as one of the most famous mythical figures from the Australian past. In Germany, on the other hand, commemoration is muted and primarily located in Lusatia (Brandenburg) where Leichhardt was born and spent his early years. Though sometimes compared to Alexander von Humboldt, Leichhardt died young. In the words of one of the characters in Hoppe , he is the possessor of a quintessential “deutsche[r] Entdeckerschicksal des 19. Jahrhunderts” (nineteenthcentury German explorer's fate). In Australia, Leichhardt is famous for being the first European to travel, with Indigenous and non-Indigenous companions, from Moreton Bay (near present-day Brisbane) to Port Essington (in the Northern Territory). However he is also famous for completely disappearing—at least from non-Indigenous sight—on a later attempt to overland to the west coast of Australia, in what was an all but impossible mission through arid country. In Felicitas Hoppe's novel, the protagonist “Hoppe” is alerted to Leichhardt when the crew of the ship on which she is traveling from Canada to Australia give her a German edition of Leichhardt's 1847 Port Essington Journal. In Adelaide (South Australia), where “Hoppe” then spends a decade in the 1970s and 1980s going to school and studying music, she engages more deeply with this figure. This starts when she writes “das mittlerweile legendäre Buch L ” ( Hoppe , 135; the now legendary Book L ), a book that has never been published, if indeed the real Felicitas Hoppe ever did write it. The novel's extended gloss of Buch L indicates that “Hoppe” wrote it while inspired by the figures who went out searching for the missing German naturalist.

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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)0.003
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.083
Threshold uncertainty score0.165

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0140.014
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.031
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.275 · 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
GenreOther

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