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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 both The 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 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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.576
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.014
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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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