Dialectics and Ideology in Dickens’ Dombey and Son: Reification of the Mental Content
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper, relying on Marxist and Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, fosters several ways to apprehend non-mimetic characterization in Dickens’ Dombey and Son by theorizing the ways in which aesthetic, political, historical ideologies articulate themselves in means of representation. Since the influence of the visual arts on the novel is central for my argument, this paper attempts to give substantial critical consideration to Dickens’ representation of images and their double meaning that help understand social ideological relations in the bourgeois society. Visual representation, as a metaphor for the role of materiality in characterization throughout Dickens’ work and the role of fetishes, depicts the reification of the subject under capitalism. Visualization technique captures the flux of shaping characters and their function in everyday life. This aesthetic technique has led to reevaluation of Dickens’s use of visuals as a unique feature in fiction of the highest quality. Hence, representations of the inward life in fiction are merely linguistic approximations of something which cannot be wholly captured in language.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".