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Record W4413277652 · doi:10.3138/flor-2023-0010

Blaming the Victim: Stalking and Sir Thomas Malory’s <i>Morte Darthur</i>

2025· article· en· W4413277652 on OpenAlex
D. Thomas Hanks

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueFlorilegium · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGothic Literature and Media Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStalkingCriminologyArtPsychoanalysisSociologyPsychology

Abstract

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Examples of what we now call stalking comprise three important episodes in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. The first is well-known: Merlin stalks Nynive, the Lady of the Lake, in pursuit of her maidenhead. Widely unrecognized as stalking is Pelleas’s action in the later episode of Pelleas and Ettarde. The condemnation of Ettarde for her “crime” of rejecting Pelleas’s attentions appears throughout Malory’s account of the event, coming to a head in her magical murder by the same Lady of the Lake who refused (and interred) Merlin. The third stalking has not been recognized as stalking because it is the man who is being stalked—Elaine of Ascolat’s stalking of Lancelot.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.884
Threshold uncertainty score0.605

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.264 · 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