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Record W3210247936 · doi:10.1080/00111619.2021.1904816

The Novel at the Limit

2021· article· en· W3210247936 on OpenAlexaff
Christopher Holmes, Thom Dancer

Bibliographic record

VenueCritique Studies in Contemporary Fiction · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicNarrative Theory and Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComedyLimit (mathematics)HistoryEconomic geographyPolitical scienceArtEconomicsLiteratureMathematics

Abstract

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Despite its 18th century origins, the novel appears remarkably resilient in adapting to the global demands of the 21st century. Largely distanced from concerns of the domestic comedy, studies of the contemporary novel tend to focus on the form’s ability to engage and respond on a global scale to transnational capitalism, neocolonialism, international warfare, and the ecological pressures of a beleaguered planet. Critics routinely approach the novel as a nexus for trans-historical understanding and a model for scalar thinking about the planet in crisis. What these approaches overlook are the myriad ways in which the novel quite ostentatiously theorizes a limit to its own vantage on the world. In a so-called age of the world, the novel appears to be a partisan of blindness over insight. Even as we become increasingly entangled within networks of global connection, our experience of the world and context for the knowledge we claim of that world continues to be mediated locally. As such, the failure to know describes one of the most salient features–and representational strengths–of the contemporary novel.

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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)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.027
Scholarly communication0.0130.010
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

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 head0.204
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.150 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2021
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