Housewife Horror: Reconciling Contrasting Depictions of the Domestic in the Works of Shirley Jackson
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Abstract
Shirley Jackson is most known for her haunting fiction, but her memoir works, which brought her the most success in her lifetime, are often overlooked due to their status as "housewife humour" books.Readers often find it difficult to reconcile these lighthearted family memoirs with the uncanny fiction that Jackson's name has been associated with in the years since her death.I argue, however, that these memoir works portray a more sinister home beneath their surface, and that Jackson's fiction and memoir works are much more similar than they first appear.My study analyses Jackson's two memoirs, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, along with her final three fiction novels, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House, andWe Have Always Lived in the Castle, in order to reconcile the two seemingly contrasting depictions of the home and argue that the home in her warm memoirs and the home in her haunting fiction is, in fact, one and the same.In order to do this, I read Jackson's work against their genre --reading her memoirs for horror, and her fiction for the warm, affectionate sentiment expressed towards the domestic in her memoirs.I conclude that Jackson's refusal to adhere to categorization of any kind allows her to create an honest depiction of the home as a place of simultaneous comfort and terror.Chrenek 3 Prcis Shirley Jackson est meilleur connu pour ses romans d'horreur, mais ses mmoires, qui ont l'apport le plus de succs pendant sa vie, sont souvent ngligs cause d'tre des livres pour les femmes.Les lecteurs de Jackson souvent trouvent que c'est difficile rconcilier ces mmoires humoristiques avec la fiction d'horreur que Jackson est souvent associ avec.Cependant, je soutiens que ces mmoires reprsentent une sphre domestique plus sinistre qu'il parat, et que les mmoires at les romans d'horreur de Jackson sont beaucoup plus similaires que les lecteurs pensent.Ma thse analyse les deux mmoires de Jackson, Life Among the Savages et Raising Demons, ainsi que ses troix derniers romans d'horreur, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House, et We Have Always Lived in the Castle, avec l'objectif de reconcilier leurs representations de la sphre domestique et soutenir que la maison dans ses mmoires et ses romans d'horreur est la mme.Pour faire cela, j'analyse les travaux littraires de Jackson contre leurs genres --alors, je trouve les aspects d'horreur dans ses mmoires, et de l'affection dans ses romans d'horreur.Je conclus que, en refusant d'adhrer aucune categorisation, Jackson est capable de reprsenter une sphre domestique capable de comfort et de terreur au mme temps.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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