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
So what are books good for? My best answer is that books produce knowledge by encasing it. Books take ideas and set them down, t
So what are books good for? My best answer is that books produce knowledge by encasing it. Books take ideas and set them down, t
admin
2017-06-11
34
问题
So what are books good for? My best answer is that books produce knowledge by encasing it. Books take ideas and set them down, transforming them through the limitations of space into thinking usable by others. In 1959, C. P. Snow threw down the challenge of "two cultures" , the scientific and the humanistic, pursuing their separate, unconnected lives within developed societies. In the new-media ecology of the 21st century, we may not have closed that gap, but the two cultures of the contemporary world are the culture of data and the culture of narrative. Narrative is rarely collective. It isn’t infinitely expandable. Narrative has a shape and a temporality, and it ends, just as our lives do. Books tell stories. Scholarly books tell scholarly stories.
Storytelling is central to the work of the narrative-driven disciplines—the humanities and the nonquantitative social sciences—and it is central to the communicative pleasures of reading. Even argument is a form of narrative. Different kinds of books are, of course, good for different things. Some should be created only for download and occasional access, as in the case of most reference projects, which these days are born digital or at least given dual passports. But scholarly writing requires narrative fortitude, on the part of writer and reader. There is nothing wiki about the last set of Cambridge University Press monographs(专著)I purchased, and in each I encounter an individual speaking subject.
Each single-author book is immensely particular, a story told as only one storyteller could recount it. Scholarship is a collagist(拼贴画家), building the next road map of what we know book by book. Stories end, and that, I think, is a very good thing. A single authorial voice is a kind of performance, with an audience of one at a time, and no performance should outstay its welcome. Because a book must end, it must have a shape, the arc of thought that demonstrates not only the writer’s command of her or his subject but also that writer’s respect for the reader. A book is its own set of bookends.
Even if a book is published in digital form, freed from its materiality, that shaping case of the codex(古书的抄本)is the ghost in the knowledge-machine. We are the case for books. Our bodies hold the capacity to generate thousands of ideas, perhaps even a couple of full-length monographs, and maybe a trade book or two. If we can get them right, books are luminous versions of our ideas, bound by narrative structure so that others can encounter those better, smarter versions of us on the page or screen. Books make the case for us, for the identity of the individual as an embodiment of thinking in the world. The heart of what even scholars do is the endless task of making that world visible again and again by telling stories, complicated and subtle stories that reshape us daily so that new forms of knowledge can shine out.
Why is each single-author book immensely particular according to the passage?
选项
A、Because it enriches and restructures our knowledge in its own way.
B、Because it puts together the particular stories we need.
C、Because it tells single-handedly how we should perform.
D、Because it helps to make the map for our travel in particular places.
答案
A
解析
推理题。第三段第一、二句:每一本单一作者的书都是只有一个讲述人可以讲述出来的,学术就如一幅拼贴画,我们每读一本书就会增加我们的知识,我们就可以逐步建立起我们获得下一项知识的路线图。故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/NtFO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Butweneedtogofurther.Wemustasksomefundamentalquestionsaboutthefuturework.Shouldwecontinuetotreatemployment
Fearanditscompanionpainaretwoofthemostusefulthingsthatmenandanimalspossess,iftheyareproperlyused.Iffiredi
Fearanditscompanionpainaretwoofthemostusefulthingsthatmenandanimalspossess,iftheyareproperlyused.Iffiredi
Futuristshaveidentifiedtwochangesthatseemtobecentraltocontemporarysociallife.First,theUnkedStatesisbeingrest
FrancoisJacobwrotethat"anageorcultureischaracterizedlessbytheextentofitsknowledgethanbythenatureoftheques
Evengeologistisfamiliarwiththeerosioncycle.Nosoonerhasanareaoflandbeenraisedabovesea-levelthanitbecomessub
Largecompaniesneedawaytoreachthesavingsofthepublicatlarge.Thesameproblem,onasmallerscale,facespracticallyev
Humanbeingisaproductoftheconsecutivelyevolutionalprocesswhichinvolvescountlesstimesofgenetictransformation.Thei
Thepoisonproducedbythespider’sskinisso_____thatitwillparalyzeabirdoramonkeyimmediately.
随机试题
弱视的压抑疗法有()
A、排便时痔核不脱出肛门及便血B、排便时痔核可脱出肛门,便后自行复位C、痔核反复脱出肛门,且不能自行还纳,需用手推回D、肛门处有一突出暗紫色肿块,剧痛,有异物感E、肛门后正中线裂口的下端有一袋状皮赘前哨痔的特
我国第五次人口普查的标准时间是2000年11月1日零点。以下应计算在人口总数内的有()。
个人抵押授信贷款有效期限最长为()年。
人类的寿命与基因有关,体内有多个基因______着你的生命长短。研究表明,那些在恶劣环境下控制机体防御功能的基因,能够显著地改善多种生物的健康状况并且延长其寿命。了解这些基因的运作______,或许可以帮助我们找到消除老年疾病、延长人类生命的秘诀。填入画横
政府机构改革的关键和核心是精简机构和人员,提高工作效率。()
在Windows系统中,如果希望某用户对系统具有完全控制权限,则应该将该用户添加到_____________用户组中。
文本框Text1的KeyDown事件过程如下:PrivateSubText1_KeyDown(KeyCodeAsInteger,ShiftAsInteger)...EndSub其中参数KeyCode的值表示的是发生此事件时
下列说法不正确的是()。
TheMonarchbutterflytravels5,000kmeachyear.InearlyApril,thebutterfliesleavetheirwinterhomesflyingbacknorth
最新回复
(
0
)