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Record W7133085007

The Fin de siècle Cultural Watershed in Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Novels

2022· dissertation· W7133085007 on OpenAlexaff
Letizia Tesi

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2022
Typedissertation
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDecadence, Literature, and Society
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTheme (computing)Plot (graphics)ExistentialismInterpretation (philosophy)NarrativeStyle (visual arts)Element (criminal law)PoetryHappening
DOInot available

Abstract

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In my dissertation, I analysed Gabriele d’Annunzio’s answer to the fin de siècle crisis from Terra vergine to the end of Romanzi della rosa (Il Piacere, L’Innocente, Trionfo della morte), including Giovanni Episcopo, which along with L’Innocente is an expression of the so-called Slavic phase. Analysing this diegetic trajectory, I enhanced the emerging narrative of modernist thematic threads, which in my opinion have always been neglected by Italian literary criticism. Following d’Annunzio’s prose from 1882 (Terra vergine) to 1894 (Trionfo della morte), I highlighted how the writer thematized the concept of modern subjectivity, ingrained in all his characters, included some in Terra vergine, unanimously considered the most Verghian style of his works. In my analysis, I shed a new light on the interpretation of d’Annunzio’s first novels, showing how they mark the beginning of the new literary era, as they anticipate Modernism. All his characters, in fact, are alienated and fragmented subjects, who become a specimen of the modernist type, the so-called inept at living, who embodies the epistemological crisis of the fin de siècle. Starting with Il Piacere, d’Annunzio’s novels hinge on the protagonists’ interiority, undermining the role of the traditional plot and featuring the subjectification of time, which is the main modernist feature in d’Annunzio’s work. Although on the surface some of these novels still abide by the deterministic logic inherent in events, time is conceived as an existential enviroment, based on the protagonists’ recollection of events rather than on the chronological sequence of facts. Another element of novelty is the theme of the doubles, most evident in L’Innocente, which creates an allocentric system for all the characters. Trionfo della Morte reaches a new level of time abstraction and psychological analysis. As ominously hinted in the title, the novel’s tragic ending deploys the triumph of Thànatos over the protagonist’s quest for a vital force to cling on. The end of the novel thus symbolizes the closure of a narrative cycle, started in Terra vergine with the death of Dalfino, the first Dannunzian character to rip the sky of the positivistic certainties and see a hint of a Pirandellian oltre.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.413
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.366
Teacher spread0.347 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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