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Record W4229979652 · doi:10.3138/utq.79.4.1054

French Translations: Elizabeth Bowen and the Idea of Character

2010· article· en· W4229979652 on OpenAlex
Allan Hepburn

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Quarterly · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicModernist Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCharacter (mathematics)LiteratureNarrativeCrueltyInscribed figureArtRepresentation (politics)Order (exchange)French literatureReading (process)Art historyPhilosophyLinguisticsSociologyPolitics

Abstract

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In order to sharpen her understanding of how narrative distance from character could be achieved in fiction, Elizabeth Bowen turned to French novelists, especially Gustave Flaubert, Henri de Montherlant, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust. She found in French novels examples of narratorial cruelty towards characters. She also adopted the Proustian idea that literature is always a translation of sorts, whether from one language to another or from reality to representation. As previously unexamined archival material proves, Bowen turned her hand to translating passages from Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale and Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu in the early 1930s. She also made an attempt to index Flaubert's correspondence. Throughout her career, Bowen commented frequently on French fiction. She reviewed Henri de Montherlant's Pitié pour les femmes and Les jeunes filles when those volumes appeared in an English translation in 1937. She wrote prefaces to Flaubert's major works. In part, she admired the way that national differences were inscribed in French and English fiction. But she principally looked to French fiction for examples of the grandiosity – or littleness – of character within historical frameworks.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.944
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.180
Teacher spread0.173 · 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