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“Standing in a Doorway Looking”: Doris Lessing's Transnational Readings

2019· other· en· W2995635164 on OpenAlexaff
Alice Ridout

Bibliographic record

VenueA Companion to World Literature · 2019
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPostcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Canadian institutionsAlgoma University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReading (process)EcocriticismCriticismContext (archaeology)LiminalityLiteratureLiterary criticismAestheticsDoris (gastropod)HistoryArtArt historySociologyPhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract Doris Lessing's transnational life enabled her to write from a liminal position on the threshold of two different cultures – British and Rhodesian – and informed her development into a cosmopolitan thinker. This chapter explores the ways in which her work reflects David Damrosch's definition of “world literature” as “a mode of circulation and of reading.” Her metafictional interest in readers and reading, evident in bothThe Golden Notebook(1962) and her Nobel Lecture (2007), illuminates the ways in which the category of “world literature” draws critical attention to our reading strategies. Her work demonstrates a committed concern with scalar thinking which provides both a historical context for and provocative examples of the kind of “scale‐crossing” imagination that ecocriticism identifies as crucial for our contemporary moment and renders her work highly relevant to emergent literary criticism of world literature.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
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 score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.056

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.018
Scholarly communication0.0120.009
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.216 · 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

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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