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Record W4405099446 · doi:10.1215/03335372-11381598

Telling Time: A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Order

2024· article· en· W4405099446 on OpenAlex
Corinne Bancroft

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Bibliographic record

VenuePoetics Today · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicNarrative Theory and Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeRhetorical questionNarratologyCharacter (mathematics)Order (exchange)LiteratureNarrative psychologyPrivilege (computing)PhilosophySociologyEpistemologyHistoryNarrative inquiryNarrative criticismArtComputer science

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Abstract Critics of Nicole Krauss's Great House (2010) find the novel “downbeat,” “tragic,” and “bleak.” Such interpretations rely on what Peter J. Rabinowitz has called “the rule of conclusive endings” by privileging the narrator of the final chapter. However, as a braided narrative, Great House weaves together five characters who narrate different stories that lead to more hopeful interpretations. The following article proposes that Krauss invites readers to simultaneously privilege multiple, conflicting interpretations by emphasizing the occasions on which her character-narrators speak. Although occasion is the central term in the rhetorical definition of narrative according to James Phelan and Rabinowitz, it has not received as much theoretical attention as the other components. Each narrator's occasion has clear temporal dimensions that cannot be reduced to one side of the story/discourse binary. Although many postclassical schools of narratology have moved away from the story/discourse distinction as central to the definition of narrative, theorists still use this binary when describing narrative order. This pair of terms fails to capture a crucial dimension of narrative time: telling time, the story moments from which a narrator speaks that contain every word of their text. While the Great House's text order ending leads to a depressing conclusion, the novel's telling order and simultaneous telling times illuminate more optimistic interpretations. Attending to the dimension of telling time in Great House illuminates an intersubjective field that not only makes the novel's tragic themes bearable but also imbues the novel with a sense of vitality and hope.

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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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.952
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.229 · 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