But Mr Hayward, a criminologist at the University of Copenhagen, goes much further. In “Infantilised”, he contends that young people today are less mature than previous generations, and that Western culture is to blame. He offers plenty of examples of “kidulting” to reinforce his case. ©
It is certainly one of the recurring criticisms of Aickman, even after a Faber reissue in 2014 to mark his centenary, that his “strange stories”, as he liked to call them, remain too vague, too bloodless and wryly devoid of easy answers, to reach a large audience. An “Aickmanesque” story envelops the reader like a mist, leaving uncertain clues and contradictory rationales. Aickman knew it himself. “It is a queer story”, he wrote of one (without revealing its title). “Not likely to be understood at all.” This is a sentiment he repeats time and again throughout a new selection of his letters to Kirby McCauley, his literary agent in the US. ©______________
Выйдя из рук умельца,вещь становится вещью.Переживает владельца,покрывается сетью трещин.
Рано или поздно вещь попадает на свалку.Почти никогда – в музей.Даже разбитую чашку бывает жалко,и в дело идет клей.
But James, although somewhat unhappily in charge of King’s, was one of the best Provosts Eton ever had and he was also a scholar of distinction, packing more solid achievement into his lifetime than most men who did not have any sort of administrative work to occupy them.He had studied classics at Cambridge, became assistant in classical archaeology at the Fitzwilliam Museum and later, as a Fellow, then Dean, of King’s, lectured in divinity. He was a bibliographer, palaeographer and antiquarian, and catalogued every medieval manuscript in the Cambridge colleges, a massive work of patience and dedication. His enthusiasm for everything he did carried him on. He had a passionate interest in the Apocrypha and his translation of the Apocryphal New Testament is still a standard work. He was a naturally brilliant linguist and even taught himself Danish and Swedish in order to read writers such as Hans Christian Andersen and the Sagas in the originals. ©
Впервые за очень долгое время я почти довольна результатами прошедшего дня, чего со мной не случалось уже довольно давно (о провиденсовских записках не забыла, конечно: выложу).
Why do we – academics, universities, taxpayers – go along with this? This is a complex question, and many things will go into the answer. One part of the answer is that many journals have established their reputations over decades, and academic communities are reluctant to abandon these titles with their established infrastructure and back catalogues. Another part is the difficulty of initiating methods of research publication different from the journal system as it now is. In the TLS of October 27, 2017, Timothy Gowers, Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge – who has been a strong campaigner against the status quo in the world of academic journals – proposed a number of alternatives to the usual peer review structure. The trouble is that significant change requires a level of collective action and cooperation that seems to be beyond academics and universities, now so pitifully competing with one another for everything. ©
Что-то я немного выдохлась. Работы полно, а я как болван — не знаю, за что хвататься в первую очередь. Соберусь с духом и перенесу сюда оставшиеся заметки с Армитаджа, а потом и французские.
Lake and Jackson were admirable exponents of what I have called the “open”, or empirical approach to authorship attribution studies, based on close observation of the texts. “Closed” approaches, by contrast, are those where enquirers are convinced that they know who the author is. Some are locked into a belief that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Francis Bacon, using a special cipher; others favour Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604). Readers may wonder how de Vere was able to publish and perhaps act in the six or seven plays that Shakespeare had yet to produce, but as we know from contemporary evidence, for conspiracy theorists all things are possible.[...]Claims that Bacon wrote Shakespeare were decisively refuted by the Bacon scholar J. M. Robertson in the 600 pages of The Baconian Heresy: A confutation (1913), who confronted “the Baconian fantasy” afresh, while recording that “many of these claims were made years before; but they seem to recur spontaneously”. This is true of all such fantasy attributions. If there are typing facilities in Purgatory, the authorship claimants may work away happily ever after there [LOL] ©
