Measure for measure - Literary criticism could be one of our best tools...

The Boston Globe;  May 11, 2008 ;   Jonathan Gottschall;   787 words ......more and more literary scholars have agreed...even other literary scholars, wants to...identified: We literary scholars have mostly...great minds of literary studies have, over...this problem. Literary studies should...If they do, literary ...

Texture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  December 1, 1998 ;   Marcus, George E.;   770 words ......anthropology and literary studies that have been...primary value to literary studies was an escape from...literature and literary studies might be taken...form conceived by literary studies becoming cultural...papers are by the literary scholars, as might ...

Politics, professionalism & the pleasure of reading.

Daedalus;  June 22, 2005 ;   Harpham, Geoffrey Galt;   787 words ......years ago, the state of literary studies was a subject of public...the cultural heritage, literary scholars had become at once inaccessible...were corrupting. For many literary scholars, especially those under...of the kind that younger literary scholars took for ...

History, literature, and the Atlantic world.(Essay)

Early American Literature;  January 1, 2008 ;   Slauter, Eric;   787 words ......past decade, literary scholars have produced...historicism within literary studies; call it...sorts. While literary studies once served...history, literary scholars now import...the side of literary studies...study because literary scholars ...

The view of where we've been and where we'd like to go.(Cognitive Poetics:...

College Literature;  January 1, 2006 ;   Hart, F. Elizabeth;   787 words ......the concerns of literary research and pedagogy...Philosophers and literary scholars on both sides of...books, the tools literary scholars need not merely...small contingent of literary scholars on conversations...not distaste). Literary scholars intrigued ...

American Studies and Gender Issues in an International Classroom.

American Studies International;  October 1, 2000 ;   Maragou, Helena;   787 words ......of us, who work within literary studies, are facing a double challenge...justifying our role as literary scholars and teachers in cultural...is the ghettoization of literary studies in society at large. At...relevance is critical for literary scholars in general, for us ...

Performance and cognitive literary studies: theory and practice.(Book...

Style;  December 22, 2007 ;   Spolsky, Ellen;   787 words ......then, that cognitive literary studies would have a lot to...should beckon cognitive literary scholars who have, however...Earlier cognitive literary studies (2) have already suggested...the cards. Because literary criticism and scholarship...whole of the academic ...

Hans Vaihinger's ghostly presence in contemporary literary studies.

Criticism;  June 22, 1998 ;   Stampfel, Barry;   787 words ...In literary studies today, Hans Vaihinger...especially, a number of literary scholars have made a point of...status in contemporary literary studies--suggesting, for openers...for many contemporary literary scholars. Following a brief review...Vaihinger in contemporary ...

Alternative literary group starts

The Boston Globe;  May 15, 1994 ;   Anthony Flint, Globe Staff;   787 words ...Literary scholars of every stripe long have been embarrassed...helped found the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, an alternative to the...severe questioning of the value of literary studies, which has been regarded as an abandoned...the supercharged politics out of ...

Literary studies and cognitive science: toward a new interdisciplinarity.

Mosaic (Winnipeg);  June 1, 1999 ;   Crane, Mary Thomas Richardson, Alan;   787 words ...Literary scholars have increasingly taken up interdisciplinary frameworks...is becoming not simply a legitimate option for literary scholars but may be gaining the force of an imperative...that those challenging disciplinary boundaries in literary and cultural studies have shown so little ...

Atlantic history and the literary turn.(Essay)

Early American Literature;  January 1, 2008 ;   Gould, Eliga H.;   787 words ......less work in Atlantic literary studies, scholarship often...history and Atlantic literary studies is quite as wide as...America, the work of literary scholars played an important...draw on the work of literary scholars, a good example...consciousness--the influence of ...

The function and value of literature and literary studies reconsidered.(A...

College Literature;  September 22, 2006 ;   Taggart, Andrew J.;   787 words ...Garber, Marjorie. 2003. A Manifesto for Literary Studies. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for...Rene Wellek and Austin Warren divided literary studies into three branches: literary criticism...reminded us that the institution of literary studies must be thought in conjunction with...

The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative

Skeptic;  January 1, 2005 ;   Michelson, David;   787 words ......Evolution of Literature A Review of The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative...review Sugiyama and a growing number of literary scholars have set their collective sights on Carroll...for a biologically informed branch of literary studies.2 This mushrooming school of young ...

Introduction: conjoining linguistics and literature.

College Literature;  March 22, 2006 ;   Gerbig, Andrea Muller-Wood, Anja;   787 words ......Given that linguists and literary scholars often depict the foundational...siblings of linguistics and literary studies apart: while one is seen...methodology can provide literary studies with new empirical...linguistics is a timely reply to literary scholarship that ...

Period Pieces

Jerusalem Post;  January 2, 1997 ;   Shalom Freedman;   556 words ......Israel a group of the world's foremost literary scholars for a conference on the place of the...focuses on Medieval and Renaissance literary studies and includes work by Larry D. Benson...also illustrated in the more purely literary studies of the volume. As Robert Griffin points...