Tag Glossary

Orlando's content is structured by the unique XML tagset described in the Introduction and visualized in the Tag Diagrams. To assist in understanding Search result facets and Tag Search, this Glossary provides definitions for tags and attributes (descriptors associated with tags). Some attributes have set values. These are often explained within definitions of attributes. Other attribute values, such as genre names, are defined within the ontologies of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, which hosts Orlando’s production environment. Searches on this page retrieve tags, attributes, and definitions, but not necessarily attribute values.

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Gendered response

Machine name
GENDEREDRESPONSE
Value
Ad feminam
Yes
No


This attribute is attached to BIOGRAPHY or WRITING > DIRECT PARENT > RESPONSES. It indicates whether or not a response to a work was predicated on or swayed by the writer's gender. Three values are available for this attribute: adFeminam, genderedYes, and genderedNo. The last two are clear: they specify whether or not the response was directed towards a writer's gender (either explicitly, or through terms like delicately sensitive or hysterical). AdFeminam is used to indicate responses focused on some pre-existing idea of the personality or personal reputation of the writer (for good or ill) - that is, an opinion of the woman not the author - rather than on the work itself. In most cases it will be used when a malign stereotype of this author is in circulation.

This attribute has siblings in the attributes RESPONSETYPE and FORMALITY.