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- Title: Filipendula Literaria: Applied Literary Studies (Report)
- Author : Ivan Rabinowitz
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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Although all students of English literature harbour the illusion that they are engaged in "literary studies", this fortunate circumstance does little to help us when we wish to understand the scope and nature of "literary studies" as a formal discipline in the humanities. And things are even worse for the formulation to the east of the colon in my title, since the parentage of an "applied literary studies" is still in question and is still full of problems. The problems concern ethics, epistemology, and meaning. Although such categories are fraught with traps for the unwary, ranging from their dangerous proximity to cliche--their "so-whatness"--to their built-in levels of vagueness and incipient circularity, they offer a point of departure for an approach to reading commensurate with the ideals and principles of an "applied literary studies".