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Record W3216146061

“Blindness as Metaphor in Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel”.

2021· article· en· W3216146061 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jamuna Jamuna

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDisability Rights and Representation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDisability studiesMetanarrativeMetaphorDepictionBlindnessField (mathematics)AmbiguityRepresentation (politics)Diversity (politics)CriticismReading (process)SociologyGender studiesPsychologyHistoryNarrativePoliticsLiteraturePolitical scienceArtMedicineLawLinguisticsAnthropologyOptometry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Disability Studies has emerged as a significant field of study in the late twentieth century, primarily, in The U.S, The U.K, and Canada. This field of study examines the social, cultural, and environmental nature of disability, and projects it as an interdisciplinary academic terrain that focuses on the contributions, experiences, history and culture of people with disabilities. Blindness is usually identified as one of the most widespread and frequently encountered disability in literary genres, and in literature, blindness has been represented as a topic through the ages. In the West, many analytical studies have emerged in relation to blindness as linked to the field of Disability Studies. Among them David Bolt’s The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-Reading of Twentieth Century Anglophone Writing, and Alice Hall’s Disability and Literature are prominent critical texts. David Bolt explores different forms of impairment and he tries to show the diversity and ambiguity of the term ‘disability’. Alice Hall in her book tries to explore formal and theoretical questions about disability and its representation in literature and culture. Not much attention has been given to representations of disability in Indian Literatures .There is a lack of analytical writing and literary criticism on the depiction of blindness in Indian Literatures. In short, Disability Studies has emerged as a current field of enquiry within literature, and in the West many studies have already emanated on the representations of disability in literature.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0140.021
Scholarly communication0.0080.006
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.152
GPT teacher head0.474
Teacher spread0.323 · 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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