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Autobiography

2024· book-chapter· en· W4398207919 on OpenAlexaff
Ian Balfour

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAutobiographical and Biographical Writing
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiographyArtPhilosophyArt history

Abstract

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Abstract Autobiography is a precarious genre as it consists in principle of works by and about an individual and yet an autobiography could only be ‘generic’ if the life and the text shared numerous experiences and dynamics with those of others. Many autobiographies entail a complicated dialectic of individual and general, including the possibility of readers identifying with the authors and their lives. This chapter addresses prominent (even some bestselling) autobiographies by Romantic writers at a time when the genre or mode flourished: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Oladuah Equiano, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Harriette Wilson. Attention is paid to the discursive shaping of lives that risk having no particular shape, focusing on conversion and moments forcing self-reflection (such as theft in the era of childhood). The projects of these autobiographies are fraught with difficulties of articulation, given the vagaries of memory, the force of narcissism, and the uncertainties of self-reflection.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.950
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.180
Teacher spread0.153 · 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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