Bibliographic record
Abstract
The poems that make up Leanne O’Sullivan’s collection A Quarter of an Hour conceptualise the sickness, coma and eventual recovery of her husband, Andrew, in terms of his journey through an ‘inflamed world’. Among the characters who offer guidance to Andrew on this journey, the figure of the fox takes on a particularly prominent role both on account of the frequency of its appearance throughout the collection and because she represents the ambiguous nature of Andrew’s coma as a liminal state that is situated ‘betwixt and between’ life and death. As an agent that is at once dangerous and supportive, the figure of the fox thus embodies a paradoxical condition, functioning as a signifier that brings together contradictory notions, most importantly the loss and retrieval of Andrew’s memory. With regard to her liminal role in Andrew’s journey from sickness to recovery, moreover, the animal crucially resembles the fox of the medieval bestiary tradition. Epitomised by its portrayal in such works as Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies or the Middle English Physiologus, the fox of the bestiary is, in fact, predominantly characterised as shifty, cunning and dangerous. Still, bestiaries also fulfilled an important mnemonic function in medieval textual cultures. Just like Andrew’s fox, therefore, the fox of the bestiary can be characterised as an ambiguous figure that is at once helpful and detrimental, thus providing an important historical frame of reference for considering the conceptualisation of Andrew’s sickness, coma and recovery in A Quarter of an Hour.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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".