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Record W4312219507 · doi:10.1093/res/hgac090

<i>Emma</i> Pastoral

2022· article· en· W4312219507 on OpenAlex
Karen Valihora

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Review of English Studies · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicJoseph Conrad and Literature
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoeticsLiteraturePoetryNarrativeFriendshipReciprocity (cultural anthropology)Harmony (color)HistoryArtSociologyAnthropology

Abstract

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Abstract This essay situates the repeating and echoing refrains of Austen’s Emma (1816)—of gruel, draughts, and fires; of ‘poor Miss Taylor’, and ‘poor little Harriet’—within the tradition of classical pastoral. It suggests that the pastoral forms Austen employs at once tend to escape notice and are crucial to understanding what the novel is about. The overhearing of Emma’s thoughts staged in the novel’s free-indirect narration, for example, is approached as a version of the third-person framing of first-person speakers to comic and ironic effect in the earliest pastorals, those of Theocritus, Virgil, and Ovid, as well as in Marvell’s Mower poems. Pastoral’s chief occasion concerns the encounter between poets and shepherds, sophisticated and simple, high and low—and readers and hearers. The many occasions of overhearing through which the novel includes its readers in its world, the friendship between Emma and Harriet, as between Knightley and Robert Martin, the speeches of Miss Bates, the reclusiveness of Mr Woodhouse—all suggest a pastoral poetics. The essay explores how the sense of a golden age of harmony and abundance that marks the daily round of life in Highbury foregrounds reciprocity, equity, and responsiveness, forms of recognition that challenge the rigid stratification and hierarchy of the world of which Austen writes.

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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 categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.588
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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)0.0010.000

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.228 · 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