Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scrittrice sudafricana di grande statura, nota e apprezzata a livello internazionale, Nadine Gordimer incarna una delle voci più rappresentative della letteratura anglofona contemporanea. Tra i prestigiosi riconoscimenti conseguiti nell'arco della sua lunghissima carriera, il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura (1991) ha reso merito alla sua "scrittura epica": una scrittura nella quale l'impegno e la testimonianza si affiancano alla lucida disamina dei conflitti interrazziali, alla difesa stoica degli ideali della dignità umana, della parità dei diritti, della libertà di pensiero e di parola. Questa monografia ricostruisce attentamente le tappe di una maturazione artistica e politica straordinaria, che affonda le radici nella prima metà del Novecento e giunge sino ai giorni nostri con "No Time Like the Present" (2012), il quindicesimo romanzo dell'autrice. Se imprescindibile è il legame con il contesto sudafricano e i suoi molteplici scenari -- dall'apartheid alla democrazia parlamentare -- si scoprirà come l'illuminante dialogo di Gordimer con la Storia interroghi pure l'universo interiore e venga creativamente plasmato dall'immaginario estetico, lungo sentieri ermeneutici dove l'artista si avventura in solitudine per tessere i filamenti della verità e tradurre in parole il suo vivido "gesto essenziale". / Indice del volume; Contents: INTRODUZIONE; CAP. I, "La lunga strada della 'ragazzina bianca di Springs'. Un quadro biografico e contestuale di Nadine Gordimer"; CAP. II, "Da 'The Lying Days' a 'The Conservationist': una panoramica sui primi sei romanzi"; CAP. III, "Verso nuove fisionomie identitarie: 'Burger's Daughter', 'July's People', 'A Sport of Nature', 'My Son's Story'"; CAP. IV, "La transizione e il post-apartheid: 'None to Accompany Me', 'The House Gun', 'The Pickup', 'Get a Life', 'No Time Like the Present'"; Riferimenti bibliografici; Indice dei nomi / An internationally well-known and celebrated South African writer, Nadine Gordimer is one of the most representative figures in contemporary Anglophone literature. Among the prestigious awards she received during her outstanding career, the Nobel Prize for Literature (1991) praised her 'epic writing': a kind of writing in which commitment and testimony come alongside a deep investigation of interracial strife and a stoic defence of the ideals of human dignity, equal rights, freedom of thought and speech. This monograph carefully reconstructs the stages of an amazing artistic and political development, which can be traced back to the first half of the twentieth century and reaches its latest peak with "No Time Like the Present" (2012), Gordimer's fifteenth novel. If the connections with the South African context (from the apartheid age to democracy) cannot be underestimated, in the book I show how Gordimer's illuminating dialogue with History also probes into the inner dimension of individuality and subjectivity. Crucially important is then the role played by the aesthetic imaginary, opening out hermeneutic paths where the artist endeavours to shed light on the truth and thus perform her vivid, 'essential gesture'.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.012 |
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".