Memory, Meaning, Scholarship: The Buildings of Loss
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The essay makes a Coda to the argument, first set out in my 2013 essay “Philology in a New Key” (Critical Inquiry 39.2 (2013): 327-46) and subsequently expanded in my book A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 2014), that literary and cultural studies establish both their disciplinary and their public authority in the scholarly practices traditionally called philology. Shifting the emphasis from theory to method, I argue that the research agenda for humanistic research and education should be firmly located in ethics and pragmatics rather than in epistemology. In this respect the essay implicitly addresses the ongoing discussion of C. P. Snow’s celebrated 1959 Rede Lecture “The Two Cultures” and their respective critical procedures. Putting the focus on history and memory, I examine three exemplary cases: a short early poem by Byron, “Lines Written Beneath a Picture”; the journalist Ron Suskind’s account of an interview with Karrl Rove in which Rove sets forth what he saw as his practically operational view of history and political action; and finally, J. G. Sebald’s imaginative memoir The Emigrants, where Sebald illustrates a mode of memorial thinking that exemplifies the practice of scholars who pursue a philological method.
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The essay makes a Coda to the argument, first set out in my 2013 essay “Philology in a New Key” (Critical Inquiry 39.2 (2013): 327-46) and subsequently expanded in my book A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 2014), that literary and cultural studies establish both their disciplinary and their public authority in the scholarly practices traditionally called philology. Shifting the emphasis from theory to method, I argue that the research agenda for humanistic research and education should be firmly located in ethics and pragmatics rather than in epistemology. In this respect the essay implicitly addresses the ongoing discussion of C. P. Snow’s celebrated 1959 Rede Lecture “The Two Cultures” and their respective critical procedures. Putting the focus on history and memory, I examine three exemplary cases: a short early poem by Byron, “Lines Written Beneath a Picture”; the journalist Ron Suskind’s account of an interview with Karrl Rove in which Rove sets forth what he saw as his practically operational view of history and political action; and finally, J. G. Sebald’s imaginative memoir The Emigrants, where Sebald illustrates a mode of memorial thinking that exemplifies the practice of scholars who pursue a philological method.
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