English LiteratureA survey of American criticism and scholarship in English literature during the thirty years or so preceding the publication of this book. |
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561624-013 FOREWORD What is the purpose of humanistic scholarship ? What , in fact , does the humanist scholar do ? The job of the humanist scholar is to organize our huge inheritance of culture , to make the past available to the ...
561624-013 FOREWORD What is the purpose of humanistic scholarship ? What , in fact , does the humanist scholar do ? The job of the humanist scholar is to organize our huge inheritance of culture , to make the past available to the ...
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The job is , obviously , impossible for any man ; and the humanist scholar , knowing he can never attain his true goal , is always tempted to run after wooden idols whose cults are less exacting and which proffer an easy bliss .
The job is , obviously , impossible for any man ; and the humanist scholar , knowing he can never attain his true goal , is always tempted to run after wooden idols whose cults are less exacting and which proffer an easy bliss .
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Humanist scholars have been accused of being overly gen- teel , contemptuous of popular culture , snobbish and anti- democratic after the fashion of their aristocratic Renaissance progenitors , backward looking , hostile to the present ...
Humanist scholars have been accused of being overly gen- teel , contemptuous of popular culture , snobbish and anti- democratic after the fashion of their aristocratic Renaissance progenitors , backward looking , hostile to the present ...
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