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Record W4323020168 · doi:10.1017/9781846157080.012

Eça de Queirós: A European Writer

2009· other· en· W4323020168 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Teresa Pinto Coelho

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTravel Writing and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSuez canalArtAncient historyHumanitiesHistoryArt historyCartographyGeography

Abstract

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José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845–1900) was among the most cosmopolitan men of his time. He went on the Eastern Grand Tour, taking in Egypt, where he witnessed the opening of the Suez Canal (1869), and the Holy Land (like Disraeli, Nerval and Gautier). In 1873 he travelled to the USA (Philadelphia, New York and Chicago) and Canada. His professional life as consul first took him to La Habana (1872–74), then Newcastle (1874–78) and Bristol (1878–88). His last post was Paris, where he died in 1900. Having lived abroad, mostly in England and France, for most of his adult life, Eça knew European culture well. Although his readership was Portuguese and Brazilian, and despite the fact that he portrays Portuguese bourgeois and aristocratic society in his novels, he also engages with late nineteenth-century European cultural, aesthetic and political debates and shows concern about the role of Portugal in Europe. The crisis of Naturalism, fin-de-siècle fears of cultural and racial decline, the imperial question, reflections on science and progress, and on the debate between culture and nature, are just some of the topics he has in common with European writers of his time. Well-read and well-travelled, with the advantage of having reached maturity as a novelist while living in Victorian England, he was in a privileged position to acquire a broad European view of events and cultural changes. Critical evaluation of Eça de Queirós's fictional and non-fictional works has often tended to suffer from political bias. He has been appropriated by both the Left and the Right: critics on the Left have celebrated his early novels, especially O Crime do Padre Amaro (1880; translated as The Crime of Father Amaro ) and O Primo Basílio (1878; translated as Cousin Basílio ), for their social and political concerns, while those on the Right praised him highly for what they deemed to be the nationalism of A Cidade e as Serras (1901; translated as The City and the Mountains ) and A Ilustre Casa de Ramires (1900; translated as The Illustrious House of Ramires ). Biographical criticism has underpinned some of these interpretations, by establishing a link between his marriage in 1886, at the age of forty, to Emília Resende, an aristocrat from Northern Portugal, and his later writings.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.143
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)0.0540.001

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.183 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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Published2009
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