Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the complex relationship between the sublime and the grotesque in literature. While the two might at first appear to have little in common, they frequently intersect in literary theory and history. My thesis considers that convergence in Paradise Lost (1674), Wuthering Heights (1847), and Hannibal (2013-2015). Written in very different time periods and social milieus, they each approach the sublime and the grotesque from a unique perspective. Milton was foundational in early scholarship on the sublime, but the grotesque is equally important throughout his epic poem. In Wuthering Heights, both the sublime and the grotesque become more psychological as Brontë engages with the legacies of the Enlightenment, the Gothic period, and Romanticism. Finally, my discussion of the television series Hannibal examines the role of the two aesthetic categories in today’s world. By putting these three works into dialogue with one another, my thesis follows the evolution of the overlap between the sublime and the grotesque, exploring the ways in which the two inform and affect one another.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".