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Knut Hamsun: Modernity's Primal Birthing

2019· other· en· W2995352763 on OpenAlexaff
Mark Deggan

Bibliographic record

VenueA Companion to World Literature · 2019
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsForegroundingModernityRelation (database)Modernism (music)RomanticismCivilizationEcocriticismLiteratureHistorySociologyAestheticsArtPolitical scienceLawArchaeology

Abstract

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Abstract Knut Hamsun remains a contested literary figure. Immediately famous beyond his native Norway, his early works excoriate fin‐de‐siècle civilization in the name of the irrational and elementary rhythms of life. Best known for the urgent early novels, Hunger (1890) and Pan (1894), and his later epic of northern settlement, Growth of the Soil (1917), his reputation would later be impaired by his increasingly right‐wing outlook. The chapter contextualizes the great variety of Hamsun's oeuvre between romanticism and modernism, and argues that his achievement should be seen in relation to his innovations in literary technique. It suggests how he became one of the voices by which other national literatures learned to articulate cultural authenticity from within individual consciousness. Finally, the chapter shows how Hamsun's continuing importance for world literature rests upon his foregrounding of the primal and irrational in human affairs, often in relation to a “mythic” northern wilderness.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.139
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0030.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.209 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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