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Abstract
featured in the guidebooks. Bea's questrequires twotrips toParisand, bychoice, anexcursion toCalifornia, thus becoming herbrother's ambassadortorestore a fragmented family towholeness, butwith dubioussuccess .LikeJames, Ozickis a moralist ,cynically referring to thefaux expatriates whodescend onParisto livetheexistentialist life as "literary tourists/' as distinct fromthereal expatriates. Foreign Bodies isCynthia Ozick'smost mature novel; notonly istheproselushandpoetic, buther insights into a family where a Jewish American prince demotes hissister toa courier areruefully accurate. Bernard F.Dick Fairleigh Dickinson University RafikSchami.The Calligrapher's Secret. Anthea Bell, tr.Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink. 2011. 444 pages. $20.isbn 978-1-56656-830-2 Considered oneoftheleading immigrantwritersin Germany, Rafik Schami(whoserealnameis Suheil Fadel) continues to charmreaders with his fictioninspiredby life in Syria,his originalhomeland. Born in Damascus in 1946 to a Christian father who was a baker, he migrated to Germany in 1971, where he earned a doctoratein chemistry atHeidelberg University and thenworkedin thechemical industry in Germany. In 1982he decidedto devotehimself fullyto writing fiction in German. He has written twenty-seven worksoffictionso far - some translated into morethantwenty-one languages and has received prestigious European literary prizes,including the Hermann Hesse Prizein 1994and theNellySachsPrizein 2006.Die DunkleSeitederLiebe(2004; Eng. The Dark Side of Love,2009),his longestnovel at 853 pages, was beautifully translated intoEnglish by AntheaBell and publishedby Interlink in2009. In TheCalligrapher's Secret , Bell now delights readerswithanother ofSchami's novels, halfas longbut equallycharming and entertaining. It has another plot,of course,but itsstyle is thesame:unhurried, leisurely , relaxed. Schami clearly enjoys describing indetailsettings, actions, and reactions thatmayor maynot matter to thenarrative structure of the whole butarefascinating observations aboutthemanners andcustoms ofthepeopleinDamascus, their religiousandethnic diversity, andmidtwentieth -century Syrian life. Theplotisabouttheloveaffair ofNoura, a married Muslim woman, andSalman, a Christian calligraphy apprentice; it is also aboutHamid Farsi, Noura's Muslim husband, a mastercalligrapher who has an ambition toreform theArabic script and who is thus distracted from caringforhis wife.The love-affair theme pales against the scriptreform themethatdominatesthe narration and is arguably themain plot, being only a metaphor for what is deemedtobe theurgent needto reform Muslimsociety. Thereis a fiercestruggle betweenthe secret "Society oftheWise/'ledbyHamid Farsi, thatembraces modernity and the fundamentalist "Pure Ones" who tenaciously defendthe holy language oftheQur'ananditsArabic scriptagainstall change.The novel tells about the engrossing experiences ofallparties. Anthea Bell, who is an acclaimed and award-winning Britishtranslator , is superbinherrendering ofRafik Schami'sstyle with itsinnuendos, humor, and endearingportrayal ofArablife. IssaJ.Boullata Montreal JacquesTardi.The Extraordinary Adventures ofAdeleBlanc-Sec. Vol. 1. KimThompson, tr.Seattle, Washington . Fantagraphics (W.W.Norton, distr.). 2010.96 pages,ill.$24.99. isbn 978-1-60699-382-8 Caught somewhere onthestructural continuum between thecomicbook and thegraphic novel,thegraphic albumwas thestapleoftheFrench bande dessinee (BD)industry fordecades untilL'Association and other "alternative" BD publishers forged an audienceforlonger booksinthe early 1990s. Thealbum istraditionallya forty-eight-page hardcover volumeandfeatures higher production values and largerpage sizes than itsAmerican cousins. Theresult isa form than caneasily beartheweight ofhigher panelcounts perpageand moretext.Therehas alwaysbeen someresistance to theform in the UnitedStatesdue to thehighratio ofpenniesto pages in comparison 68 1 World Literature Today ...
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.028 |
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".