Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gerald Murnane retired from writing in 1995. His experimental fiction had never won major awards or sold well. In 2009, he published a new novel, Barley Patch . Murnane subsequently become an international success who was profiled in The New York Times and The New Yorker (twice). He could claim major writers—J. M. Coetzee, Jon Fosse, Joshua Cohen, Teju Cole, and Ben Lerner—as admirers, and had high prestige publishers in the US, the UK, and Australia. How did Murnane go from cult author to a major international writer? This essay tracks the material reception of Murnane’s post‑retirement writing, and the network of actors who boosted his reputation. It presents an account of the way that highbrow literature is transmitted transnationally and compares this to Lawrence Rainey’s account in Institutions of Modernism (1998) to understand how online reception has changed the way that highbrow literary authors are made visible to readers.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".