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The good parodist: beyond images of escape in the fiction of Doris lessing
Full text linkIn her earlier fiction, Doris Leasing presents images of escape from what Cohen and Taylor term "everyday life”. These images of escape, such as the vision of the "noble city, set four-square" in Martha Quest and Martha's plunge into the muddy veld pothole in A Proper Marriage, are framed by realism. In positing an escape from 'realism'(understood as both literary form and "everyday reality") they suggest the inadequacy of realism. However, the success of these images is limited as they attempt to posit an "outside", a project which postmodernism has taught us, is bound to fail. Lessing increasingly replaces these images of escape with parody. Parody more fundamentally interrogates realism and allows Lessing to negotiate an escape whilst recognizing her implication in contemporary society. My model of parody takes its lead from Linda Hutcheon's consideration of "serious parody", as marking "the intersection of creation and re-creation, of invention and critique" (A Theory of Parody, 1985). This, I argue, is the intersection of Lessing's political and aesthetic projects. Lessing's use of parody also provides her with a useful strategy for negotiating subjectivity. I argue that whilst she questions the liberal humanist self, she does not completely reject it. She is "post-humanist" rather than "anti-humanist". Lessing's "space fiction" seems to signal a return to the project of positing an "outside" implied by her images of escape. However, I illustrate how her space fiction is equally subject to the problematic politics of parody. Just as parody "installs" a pre-existing text to "subvert" it, so space fiction "installs" the Earth in order to critique it. The "dual-codedness" of parody is, I conclude, perfect for Lessing's multiple projects
DORIS-MAE-v1
No full textIn scientific research, the ability to effectively retrieve relevant documents based on complex, multifaceted queries is critical. Existing evaluation datasets for this task are limited, primarily due to the high costs and effort required to annotate resources that effectively represent complex queries. To address this, we propose a novel task, Scientific DOcument Retrieval using Multi-level Aspect-based quEries (DORIS-MAE), which is designed to handle the complex nature of user queries in scientific research.
Documentations for the DORIS-MAE dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/Real-Doris-Mae/Doris-Mae-Dataset. This upload contains both DORIS-MAE dataset version 1 and ada-002 vector embeddings for all queries and related abstracts (used in candidate pool creation). DORIS-MAE dataset version 1 is comprised of four main sub-datasets, each serving distinct purposes.
The Query dataset contains 100 human-crafted complex queries spanning across five categories: ML, NLP, CV, AI, and Composite. Each category has 20 associated queries. Queries are broken down into aspects (ranging from 3 to 9 per query) and sub-aspects (from 0 to 6 per aspect, with 0 signifying no further breakdown required). For each query, a corresponding candidate pool of relevant paper abstracts, ranging from 99 to 138, is provided.
The Corpus dataset is composed of 363,133 abstracts from computer science papers, published between 2011-2021, and sourced from arXiv. Each entry includes title, original abstract, URL, primary and secondary categories, as well as citation information retrieved from Semantic Scholar. A masked version of each abstract is also provided, facilitating the automated creation of queries.
The Annotation dataset includes generated annotations for all 165,144 question pairs, each comprising an aspect/sub-aspect and a corresponding paper abstract from the query's candidate pool. It includes the original text generated by ChatGPT (version chatgpt-3.5-turbo-0301) explaining its decision-making process, along with a three-level relevance score (e.g., 0,1,2) representing ChatGPT's final decision.
Finally, the Test Set dataset contains human annotations for a random selection of 250 question pairs used in hypothesis testing. It includes each of the three human annotators' final decisions, recorded as a three-level relevance score (e.g., 0,1,2).
The file "ada_embedding_for_DORIS-MAE_v1.pickle" contains text embeddings for the DORIS-MAE dataset, generated by OpenAI's ada-002 model. The structure of the file is as follows:
├── ada_embedding_for_DORIS-MAE_v1.pickle
├── "Query"
│ ├── query_id_1 (Embedding of query_1)
│ ├── query_id_2 (Embedding of query_2)
│ └── query_id_3 (Embedding of query_3)
│ .
│ .
│ .
└── "Corpus"
├── corpus_id_1 (Embedding of abstract_1)
├── corpus_id_2 (Embedding of abstract_2)
└── corpus_id_3 (Embedding of abstract_3)
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.The DORIS-MAE dataset is contained in a paper submitted to NeurIPS 2023 Dataset Track for review. Please refer to benchmarking details in the GitHub link: https://github.com/Real-Doris-Mae/Doris-Mae-Dataset. Author information will be made available shortly
Letter From Ruby Doris Smith to her Mother, circa 1964
No full textCorrespondence from Ruby Doris Smith to her mother about being in Conakry, Guinea in West Africa. 4 pages
Mary Ann Smith Wilson, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism
No full textThe Mary Ann Smith Wilson - Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism spans the dates 1948-2008 with the bulk of the material dated 1960-1967. The collection documents both Ruby Doris Smith Robinson's and Mary Ann Smith Wilson's participation in the civil rights movement and the organizations with which they were affiliated. Although the collection documents both sisters' activities, the bulk of the collection reflects Ruby Doris Smith Robinson’s activism activities in the civil rights movement. Also included in the collection are photographs, correspondences, news articles, programs, reports, and flyers.
At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library, we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at [email protected]
Letter From Ruby Doris Smith to Her Sister Mary Ann Smith, February 25, 1961
No full textCorrespondence from Ruby Doris Smith to her sister Mary Ann Smith from York County Jail. 5 pages
Author Doris Lessing
No full textDoris Lessing was the keynote speaker on Opening day of the National Word Festival 198
Doris Burton
No full textDoris Karren Burton was born to Victor and Stella Karren on March 16, 1932. She married Troy Burton in 1951. Doris was a talented woman. She was a musician and an author. She was the Uintah County Librarian and later the director of the Regional History Center which she began. She recieved many awards for her talents and work. Doris died June 17, 2015
Doris Karren
No full textDoris Karren was born to Victor and Stella Karren on March 16, 1932. She married Troy Burton in 1951. Doris was a talented woman. She was a musician and an author. She was the Uintah County Librarian and later the director of the Regional History Center which she began. She recieved many awards for her talents and work. Doris died June 17, 2015
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
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