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Record W4243596905 · doi:10.4000/erea.6170

Modernist Disavowal

2018· article· en· W4243596905 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueE-rea · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicJoseph Conrad and Literature
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpiritualismModernism (music)Reading (process)Key (lock)LiteratureAestheticsExtension (predicate logic)PhilosophyPsychoanalysisArtPsychologyLinguistics

Abstract

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This paper argues that the psychological mechanism of disavowal is at the heart of modernist conceptions of difference from the Victorians. It identifies the focal point of this disavowal in the overt repudiation of spiritualism and spectrality in key pronouncements by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf. By reading those pronouncements closely, and comparing them to the use of spectrality and spiritualism in these writers’ novels, this paper argues that these key foundational figures of literary modernism enact a powerful case of disavowal. Though they explicitly deplore the use of the supernatural, Conrad and Woolf rely upon it in their fiction. This specific dual disavowal – of the Victorian precedent and of a lingering supernaturalism in their own work – is not just limited to Conrad and Woolf, but, I argue, informs the larger means by which the modernists strove to understand and articulate their break with the Victorians. Disavowal of the supernatural stands at the origin of modernist self-conception, anchoring the challenge to “make it new” directly in a matrix of ethico- aesthetic concerns.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.923
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)0.0100.002

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.198 · 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