Review of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World, ed. by Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard, and Benjamin Mountford
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Abstract
The 2019 issue of Literary Research foregrounds the polyphonic diversity typifying the current configurations of comparative literary studies.Such an array of perspectives can immediately be perceived in the first section of this issue, comprised of three scholarly essays reflecting their authors' cutting-edge research in progress.In the opening essay, "What Does a Classic Do? Tapping the Powers of Comparative Phenomenology of the Classic/al," Wiebke Denecke embarks on what she calls a "comparative historical phenomenology of the classic/al and of classicisms" (54).She examines our current anxieties about the classic/al by drawing on examples from ancient Greek, Roman, Chinese, Korean and Japanese societies.She argues that the classic/al may encourage us to come to terms with the nationalisms, fundamentalisms, inequalities and traumas of our age (55).In his contribution, "Poésie diasporique, poésie totale?Devenirs du paradigme avant-gardiste chez Ricardo Aleixo, Ronald Augusto et Nathaniel Mackey," Cyril Vettorato compares Black poets from Brazil and the United States.He subtly shows how their works make it possible to combine representations of Blackness with avant-garde aesthetics.In "Genres as Gateways to the World for Minor Literature: The Case of Crime Fiction in Galicia," César Domínguez focuses on the work of Galician crime fiction author Domingo Villar, whose works can be regarded as instances of world literature.Domínguez carefully examines the thorny translation issues that characterize Villar's crime fiction.Polyphony also pervades the review essay section of this issue.The two contributions collected here deal with the complex articulations of the growing field of comparative ecocriticism.In "Multiple Convergences: Ecocriticism and Comparative Literary Studies," Jessica Maufort traces how ecocriticism, which originated in American academic circles, has considerably diversified in recent years so as to include studies by postcolonial as well as European scholars respectively.In "La ville moderne et ses mythes: un essai de mise au point," Daniel Acke focuses Les voix polyphoniques des études littéraires comparéesCe numéro de Recherche littéraire/Literary Research met en avant la diversité polyphonique qui caractérise les configurations récentes des études littéraires comparées.Une telle richesse de perspectives se manifeste dès la première section de la revue, qui rassemble trois articles scientifiques témoignant de la recherche innovante de leurs auteurs.Dans l'article qui ouvre ce numéro, "What Does a Classic Do? Tapping the Powers of Comparative Phenomenology of the Classic/al," Wiebke Denecke construit "une phénoménologie historique comparée du classique et des classicismes" (54, ma traduction).Elle explore nos anxiétés contemporaines par rapport à la notion du classique, tout en utilisant des exemples issus des sociétés antiques grecque, romaine, chinoise, coréenne et japonaise.Elle défend l'idée que le classique peut nous aider à appréhender les nationalismes, fondamentalismes, inégalités et traumatismes de notre époque (55).Dans son essai, « Poésie diasporique, poésie totale?Devenirs du paradigme avant-gardiste chez Ricardo Aleixo, Ronald Augusto et Nathaniel Mackey », Cyril Vettorato compare des poètes d'origine africaine au Brésil et aux Etats-Unis.Selon lui, les œuvres de ces auteurs associent astucieusement la représentation de l'africanité et l'esthétique avant-gardiste.Dans "Genres as Gateways to the World for Minor Literature: The Case of Crime Fiction in Galicia," César Domínguez se penche sur la production de l'auteur de roman policier galicien Dominguo Villar, dont les œuvres peuvent être considérées comme un exemple de littérature mondiale.Domínguez analyse méticuleusement les questions épineuses de traduction inhérentes à l'oeuvre de Villar.L'aspect polyphonique caractérise également les essais critiques publiés dans ce numéro.Les deux contributions de cette section traitent des articulations complexes de l'écocritique comparée, un domaine dont l'importance ne cesse de s'accroître.Dans "Multiple Convergences : Ecocriticism and Comparative Literary Studies," Jessica Maufort analyse les tendances actuelles de l'écocritique.Cette discipline, qui vit le jour dans les cercles académiques américains, s'est
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.009 | 0.016 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.003 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".