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Article: Credibility: The Next Challenge Responses to Katherine Arens
- Article from:
- German Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright American Association of Teachers of German, Inc. Winter 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ALBRECHT CLASSEN
University of Arizona
The challenge posed by KatherineArens is most welcome, and it is one that every scholar/scientist must face from time to time to revisit the fundamental principles of his/her work in methodological and philosophical terms. She rightly emphasizes two most troublesome aspects in postmodern literary scholarship: first, increasingly scholars resort to and rely on theoretical approaches as a support for their own work without checking the validity of those theories. second, they address topics far outside the traditional scope of literary scholarship and still claim authority without having consulted the relevant scholarship in those respective fields or ...