首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The procedures followed by scholars studying literature are often unsatisfactory: the control over a cognitive project as a whol
The procedures followed by scholars studying literature are often unsatisfactory: the control over a cognitive project as a whol
admin
2013-11-29
25
问题
The procedures followed by scholars studying literature are often unsatisfactory: the control over a cognitive project as a whole is often lost. The literary scholar seems to be collecting data, which is a preliminary operation, without making use of them. Like a diligent ant gathering food it will never eat, the contemporary literary scholar seems intent upon writing footnotes of a book s/he will never try to read.
I propose that at the outset of a research project it is necessary to render explicitly the questions the scholar will try to answer, what methods will be used and the reason why s/he thinks that it may be worthwhile answering such questions. More over, the work of the people concerned with the study of literature seems casual. For instance, much research is devoted to one author, often on the occasion of an anniversary. Now there is no reason to think that our observations will be more valid, urgent, appropriate, useful, or interesting if the author of the texts we are concerned with was born or died or the texts were written fifty, one hundred, or two hundred years ago. This seems to be celebration and not research producing knowledge. It does not seem to make any sense to determine one’s research program by looking at the calendar. The widespread habit of limiting the scope of a research project to a single author often leads to a confined understanding of the author and the texts, which, in turn, offers marginal results. The average literary scholar considers these results satisfactory. But for what purpose are they satisfactory?
Often the research strategies and methods of the literary scholar are repetitive. A new operation that is anologous to previous ones is often considered worthwhile. It is on these premises that many texts concerning literature are produced and accepted. I propose instead that in a concrete project that tries to produce knowledge, any statement needs verification. But there is a point where it is unnecessary to repeat the same operation on new data, because the result has already been established: rather than additional confirmation of what is already known, it is the exploration of what is still unknown that deserves priority. Contemporary literary research seems to be based on habits that originated in the past and that bear little resemblance to research projects as they are intended now in other fields. If our main aim were the proposal of some objects as cultural models, then it would be useful to our purpose to try to attract our society’s attention toward these objects and the persons who produced them. It would be reasonable to perform our actions on the occasion of anniversaries, because we would not be doing research, but celebration and propaganda. Celebration aims at confirming certitudes and strengthening bonds of solidarity among the participants. It does not produce knowledge, but it confirms what is already known. Legitimating by means of the power of words has been for many centuries the main job of the man of letters.
In the view of the writer, scholars studying literature need to ______.
选项
A、research more diligently.
B、establish a clear purpose before commencing research.
C、decrease the number of footnotes.
D、avoid writing special works to celebrate anniversaries.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/4PhO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Therearesomethatwouldarguethathospitalsarenoplacefordogs,whiletheyarewrong.Atleastaccordingtonewresearchr
Therearesomanybadthingsaboutwomendriver’s,Idon’tknowwheretostaff.IguessIwillgettheballrollingbytalkinga
Educationalpoliciesmade______thehoofbysuccessivesecretariesofstatearethemainreasonforlowteachermorale.
InZurich,aleadingcantonintheSwissConfederation,ithasbeenproposedtoteachoneforeignlanguage-English-inprimarysc
InZurich,aleadingcantonintheSwissConfederation,ithasbeenproposedtoteachoneforeignlanguage-English-inprimarysc
BeforehighschoolteacherKimberlyRughgotdowntobusinessatthestartofarecentschoolweek,shejokedwithherstudents
Fasterthaneverbefore,thehumanworldisbecominganurbanworld.Bythemillionstheycome,theambitiousandthedown-trodd
Thequestionofwhetherwarisinevitableisonewhichhasconcernedmanyoftheworld’sgreatwriters.Beforeconsideringthis
Predictionsoflargepopulationsofrobotsinindustryhaveyettocometrue.Foradecadeormore,manufacturersofbigrobots
随机试题
______achangeoftheweather,pleasetakethecoatwithyou.
患者男性,45岁,乙肝病史10年,右上腹不适,ALT、AFP正常。临床申请腹部超声检查。超声所见:肝脏右叶萎缩,左叶代偿性增大,肝被膜不光滑,实质回声增强、增粗、不均质,可见局限性回声增强区,肝静脉细窄,胆囊壁增厚5mm,胆囊侧壁可见3mm、4mm等回
下列关于数字减影血管造影的描述,错误的是
杀菌作用最强的紫外线的波长范围是()
根据《香港特别行政区基本法》和《澳门特别行政区基本法》的规定,下列哪些选项是正确的?(2013年卷一第61题)
药品的常用色彩不包括()。
下图为某BMP图像的属性,该图存储容量约为()。
简述法人和自然人民事权利能力的区别。
若二次型f(x1,x2,x3)=2x12+x22+x32+2x1x2+tx2x3是正定的,则t的取值范围是_______.
设f(a)=f(b)=0,∫abf2(χ)dχ=1,f′(χ)∈C[a,b].(1)求∫abχf(χ)f′(χ)dχ;(2)证明:∫abf′2(χ)dχ∫abχ2f2(χ)dχ≥.
最新回复
(
0
)