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Record W4238194521 · doi:10.1353/crv.0.0049

Wars for Oil: Moby-Dick , Orientalism, and Cold-War Criticism

2009· article· en· W4238194521 on OpenAlex
Jean-François Leroux

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Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicViolence, Religion, and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrientalismIdeologyCriticismPower (physics)DramaRepresentation (politics)Subject (documents)LiteratureRelation (database)Cold warPhilosophyEvocationArtAestheticsHistoryLawPolitical sciencePolitics

Abstract

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Beginning with Edward Said's reflections on the media fall-out post 9/11, the ideological representations of which he likens to the mythical drama enacted in Moby-Dick , the article goes on to revisit the consensus achieved in Cold-War criticism of the novel in light of our awareness of the cultural construction of recent events. Specifically, the article questions the dichotomizing of the novel in terms of East and West and the critical casting of Fedallah and Ahab as scapegoats for collective guilt, drawing on the work of René Girard on the subject. In this way, it confirms the analogical justness of Said's evocation of Moby-Dick in relation to America's "collective imagination" of its relationship to the Near East and argues the book's power to re-orient and subvert that very representation by revealing both its mythical core and the collective acts of violence it seeks to conceal or sanction. À l'instar d'Edward Said et de ses réflexions sur la retombée dans les médias des attentats du 11 septembre, les représentations idéologiques duquel compare au drame mythique jouée dans Moby-Dick , l'article revient sur le consensus de la critique de la guerre froide relativement au notre sensibilisation à la construction culturelle des récents événements. Plus particulièrement, l'article s'interroge sur la dichotomisation du roman en termes d'Est et d'Ouest et l'assignation par la critique à Fedallah et Achab du rôle de bouc émissaire pour la culpabilité collective en s'inspirant de l'œuvre de René Girard sur le sujet. Il justifie ainsi l'analogie de l'évocation de Said de Moby-Dick par rapport à « l'imagination collective » des États-Unis dans leur relation avec le Proche-Orient et démontre le pouvoir du livre à réorienter et à renverser cette même représentation en révélant à la fois son noyau mythique et les gestes collectifs de violence qu'il cherche à masquer ou à sanctionner.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.699
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.259 · 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