The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed WorldUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.05.2006 - 239 Seiten For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In The Scholar’s Art, a collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports. Of particular interest to McGann is the demise of public discourse about poetry. That poetry has become recondite is, to his mind, at once a problem for how scholars do their work and a general cultural emergency. The Scholar’s Art asks what could be gained by reimagining the way scholars have codified the literary and cultural history of the past two hundred years and goes on to provide a series of case studies that illustrate how scholarly method can help bring about such reimaginings. McGann closes with a discussion of technology’s ability to harness the reimagination of cultural memory and concludes with exemplary acts of critical reflection. Astute observation from one of America’s most bracing and original commentators on the place of literature in twenty-first century culture, The Scholar’s Art proposes new ways—cultural, philological, and technological—to reimagine our literary past and future. |
Inhalt
Loose Canons | 1 |
Two Romantic Responses to the Death of Beauty | 19 |
2 Romanticism PostRomanticism and the Afterlife of Cultural Authority | 35 |
Laura Riding and the History of TwentiethCentury Writing | 50 |
4 My Kinsman Walter Scott | 71 |
5 Tennyson and the Artists of the Beautiful | 88 |
6 Beauty a NineteenthCentury Users Manual | 104 |
7 Mr James and His Discovery | 121 |
8 Visible Language Interface IVANHOE | 148 |
10 Impossible Fiction or The Importance of Being John Cowper Powys | 175 |
11 Beauty the Irreal and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief | 190 |
The Scholars Art | 211 |
NOTES | 217 |
WORKS CITED | 221 |
229 | |
8 Interpretation as a Game That Must Be Lost | 135 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acker aesthetic artists authority autopoietic Baudelaire Beauty Blake Byron called century chapter character Charles Bernstein codependent codes Coleridge Coleridge's comic critical cultural D. G. Rossetti dead discourse Diversi Colores Don Giovanni Don Juan Dugan's Edel edition Eliot emerge Emily Dickinson essay event famous fiction Finnegans Wake forms function Glastonbury Romance Horne's human idea ideal illusions imagination inner standing-point interpretation ivanhoe James James’s John Cowper Powys kind Klupzy language Laura Riding linguistic literary Lukács meaning Memoriam Methuen mind modernism modernist moral move narrative narrator novel passage perhaps Poe's poem poem's poet poetic poetry Porius postmodern Powys Powys’s problem procedures prose question reader reflection Riding's Romantic Romanticism Rossetti scholarly scholars Scott seems sense stanza Stein story style Swinburne T. S. Eliot tale tell Tennyson textual field things tion tradition truth turns verse words Wordsworth writing
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