On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
What? WP:NOR barely mentions lit crit or anything
related to it. It's
a general policy that applies to literature as much as it does to
science or history. I think you may be a little paranoid...
Lit crit, however (or more broadly, English departments), is the
general discipline under which writing and research skills are taught
these days. It is the discipline that generally teaches courses on
research, the nature of sources, etc. It is also the discipline out of
which the question of what reading is, what one interprets from
reading, and what a given passage of text "means." The PSTS section,
and particularly the portion in the primary sources section that I am
complaining about does make clear declarations about these things. And
it's clear that they were written by people who haven't cracked open a
book of scholarship on the underlying issues in recent memory.
-Phil