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Article: Honors scholarship: another view.(Forum on Research in Honors)
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- Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Samuel Beckett, not Vladimir Nabokov, is the most self-reflexive of novelists; and in a flurry of self-reflexivity, one of his narrators finally admits to a fundamental deficit: "if there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing?" (1) In his usual compelling and concise way, Sam Schuman works in his article to invent an answer to the question, What ought we to be doing in Forum for Honors? And invent an answer we must, if the Forum is to fulfill its lofty ambition of being a serious academic journal. In many ways, Schuman's answer is satisfactory. Articles in the Forum should indeed be ...