{"id":91,"date":"2006-09-02T09:53:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/slight-retraction\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T19:17:37","slug":"slight-retraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/slight-retraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Slight retraction…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, Altick and Fenstermaker have redeemed themselves somewhat in the last couple of chapters of The Art of Literary Research<\/i>, so I must back down a bit from my negative reaction<\/a> to the book. All the things I said still hold true for the passages I quoted there, but check this out:<\/p>\n

\n[speaking of the sense that what literary scholars do is largely unappreciated by the world at alarge] Yet if we are unappreciated and undervalued, the fault is partly ours. We gladly learn, but outside the classroom many of us are curiously uninterested in teaching. Many modern critics and scholars have developed the habit of talking only to each other, neglecting the broader audience of educated people…It is our responsibility to seize every opportunity to communicate with the lay audience, as in book reviews or in articles and essays in the popular press on history, biography, and culture (and to make such opportunities where they do not exist). [Altick & Fenstermaker, p254]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, that<\/i> I can get behind. Is there a way I can do only that and not have to do the specialized journals and conferences and stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, Altick and Fenstermaker have redeemed themselves somewhat in the last couple of chapters of The Art of Literary Research, so I must back down a bit from my negative reaction to the book. All the things I said still hold true for the passages I quoted there, but check this out: [speaking of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[29],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/academic-elitism\/","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":0},"title":"Academic Elitism","author":"Jandy","date":"August 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't think I'm going to make a very good academic. Good thing I already suspected that and didn't sign up for the PhD program. 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