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Record W4417358905 · doi:10.1353/slr.2024.a930909

Queer Nostalgia and Island Time in J. M. Barrie and Compton Mackenzie

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Tim Baker

Bibliographic record

VenueScottish Literary Review · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicScottish History and National Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQueerRelation (database)NarrativePortraitTimelineTheme (computing)

Abstract

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Abstract: Studies of queer temporality, both in Scottish literature and more generally, have emphasised the importance of non-linear time and questions of futurity. Scottish texts of the 1920s, however, present a different view, where the rejection of compulsory heterosexuality, at the very least, is historically situated. J. M. Barrie's Mary Rose (1920) juxtaposes multiple timelines to suggest the possibility of rejecting traditional family and gender relations, while Compton Mackenzie's two portraits of queer life on Capri, Vestal Fire (1927) and Extraordinary Women (1928), present the international community there as located firmly in the past. Both authors specifically posit islands, real or fictional, as places of transformation and exploration. Islands not only have their own time, but a unique relation to questions of sexuality. While Barrie and Mackenzie's texts, when discussed at all, are seen as fundamentally conservative and predominantly read in relation to the authors' biographies, this article suggests that their overlooked status in current conversations about queer literature and history is itself productive. In both geographic and historical setting the works emphasise peripherality and non-integration. They are, following Lauren Berlant's recent work, inconvenient texts, and texts about inconvenience. Taking such texts seriously, and emphasising the value of literature, and lives, that remain outliers, demonstrates new interpretive possibilities for the study of queer Scottish literature.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.511
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

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 communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.221 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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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