Transforming Cultural Memory: The Shifting Boundaries of Post-Devolutionary Scottish Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Carla Sassi offers a rich overall commentary on the role of the literary and ways of rethinking and remediating nationalism. Her contribution assesses how post-devolutionary texts engage with and reconfigure – possibly dissolve – conventional ideas of the nation, with reference to recent re-conceptualisations of the notion of cultural memory. Sassi turns her attention to a number of Scottish contemporary literary texts that signal a meaningful new paradigmatic shift in their relation to Scotland’s cultural memory, and indeed to ideas of Scottish national identity – a shift that, she argues, may be seen equal in its importance to that marked in 1981 by the publication of Alasdair Gray’s <italic>Lanark</italic>. Through an analysis of works ranging from James Robertson’s historical novels, David Greig’s stage adaptation of <italic>Lanark</italic> and Kathleen Jamie’s nonfiction to the recent publications of Malachy Tallack, Amy Liptrot and Ian Stephen, Sassi focuses on what she presents as two specific trends of twenty-first-century Scottish writing: the shift from a memory-as-history paradigm to a markedly literary one, and a new commitment to the materiality of the local – a celebration of ecological immanence – both of which may have important repercussions on ideas of Scottishness.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".