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Record W3210247936 · doi:10.1080/00111619.2021.1904816

The Novel at the Limit

2021· article· en· W3210247936 on OpenAlex

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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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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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.829
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.204
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