The sentence is a lively place: Virginia Woolf and Diane William's experiments in the short form
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In "The Sentence is a Lonely Place" (2009), Gary Lutz calls for more literature that recognizes the sentence to be "the one true theater of endeavor, as the place where writing comes to a point and attains its ultimacy" (5).As a response, this thesis considers the role of the sentence and readerly perception in the experimental short fiction of Virginia Woolf and Diane Williams.Woolf and Williams use their short stories to write the perceptual moment and they leverage the sentence and its effects toward this end.The short story is the ideal form for this perceptual thematics and poetics of the sentence given its ability to focus readerly attention on the sentence unit.Woolf and Williams exploit this by breaking the sentence in their stories, privileging fragmentation and ellipsis over linear narrative strategies and relying on their readers to do the perceptual work of reading between the gaps for story.This thesis argues that such an active, participatory reading practice allows for an innovative approach to character that resists conventions of psychological realism.Ultimately, I suggest that the result of Woolf and Williams's sentence-oriented aesthetic provides a way of writing character that is specific to the short form.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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 teacher head, 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".