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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David Daiches. 561624-0 / 3 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 ...
David Daiches. 561624-0 / 3 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 ...
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... 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 . Sometimes the humanist is tempted to bypass the rigorous training ...
... 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 . Sometimes the humanist is tempted to bypass the rigorous training ...
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David Daiches. Humanist scholars have been accused of being overly gen- teel , contemptuous of popular culture ... humanistic scholarship of recent decades , de- scribing it , and attempting to sift the imaginative , the origi- nal , and ...
David Daiches. Humanist scholars have been accused of being overly gen- teel , contemptuous of popular culture ... humanistic scholarship of recent decades , de- scribing it , and attempting to sift the imaginative , the origi- nal , and ...
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