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Record W3091770087 · doi:10.1093/res/hgaa073

<scp>John Scholar</scp>. <i>Henry James and the Art of Impressions</i>

2020· article· en· W3091770087 on OpenAlexaff
Daniel Hannah

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Review of English Studies · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRace, History, and American Society
Canadian institutionsLakehead University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtAestheticsPrecedentEmpiricismImpressionArt historyPsychologyPhilosophyLawEpistemologyAdvertising

Abstract

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In a frequently discussed passage from his 1884 essay ‘The Art of Fiction’, Henry James recalls the story of how a female author (believed to be Anne Thackeray Ritchie) gathered material for a tale from a passing glimpse, through ‘an open door’, of some ‘young Protestants … seated at table round a finished meal’: ‘The glimpse made a picture; it lasted only a moment, but that moment was experience. She had got her impression, and she evolved her type’. Ritchie’s received impression proves crucial to the success of ‘the impression she had managed to give’ of such youth in the resultant story. This familiar episode forms a touchstone for John Scholar’s new book on Henry James’s ‘art of impressions’—it encapsulates James’s interest in impressions as imaginative events of extraordinary sensation and active embroidering, moving fluidly ‘between the sensible and the moral’ (p. 54). Scholar’s work, in its most impressive sequences, paints a compelling picture of James’s investment in the impression as a term with a deep genealogy and complicated resonance, driving his fictional explorations of empiricism, aesthetics, and memory.

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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)0.001
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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.060
Threshold uncertainty score0.120

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0040.006
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.284 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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