General Introduction: The Companion to World Literature … For Those Who Yearn
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This General Introduction frames world literature as a “home” for readers in a culturally integrating world. Keeping with this metaphor, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature bids to provide a floor plan and furnishing. This essay sketches the structural outline and rationale for the Companion . What are the principles of topic selection? Who is the target readership? What is the relationship between the Companion essays and academic scholarship in fields such as national, regional or ethnic literatures? The General Introduction also anticipates some of the objections often leveled at the emerging discipline of World Literature: Does it reduce cultural specificities to neocolonial commodities? Does it seek to supplant disciplines relating to national and Comparative Literature? Without disregarding these objections, this essay stresses the Companion's commitment to recognizing and bridging, not denying or emulsifying, cultural differences.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it