3.249 Chronicle of Higher Education, cont. (79)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Fri, 14 Jul 89 21:22:13 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 249. Friday, 14 Jul 1989.
(1) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 23:01:24 EDT (47 lines)
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: Chronicle of Higher Ed. Article
(2) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 23:34:22 EDT (12 lines)
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: Telemann
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 23:01:24 EDT
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: Chronicle of Higher Ed. Article
I was hoping that someone else would see and comment on the article
in the Chronicle of Higher Education, as Jim McSwain (F0A8@USOUTHAL)
did.
Of note:
Linguistics and then classics are given pride of place in
adopting computers.
Mark V. Olsen, a HUMANIST is quoted, in re ARTFL.
An interview Theodore Brunner, of TLG, anchors the article.
A passage worth noting:
"Scholars suggest that having such extensive evidence (TLG)
reliably at one's fingertips will lessen the weight given to
exquisitely crafted explantions based on not large numbers of
cases, but on the force of argument."
The more I look at that sentence the less clear it becomes--anyway,
IS that what scholars are suggesting?
The paragraph continues:
"It may also make it easier for a newcomer to the field, drawing on
extensive and replicable examples, to have his or her unorthodox
interpretation accepted. Or so says the French scholar Paul A. Fortier
of the University of Winnepeg in a new book, >>Literary
Computing and Literary Criticism<< (University of Pennsylvania Press,
1989).
It is unclear whether Fortier is suggesting both sentences ("Scholars...
and "It may...) or just the second.
But it sounds as if the trend is toward a more SCIENTIFIC METHOD
type of scholarship, especially with the mention of replicability.
The article continues with more on RLIN, ARTFL, and Intermedia.
Interesting, but maybe we could find the author, Chris Raymond,
and sign him/her up on HUMANIST and/or send copies of the logs from
the server, for a followup article.
Matthew Gilmore
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 23:34:22 EDT
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: Telemann
As a Telemann fan, I was pleased to see, also in the July 12, 1989
Chronicle of Higher Education, that Brian Stewart of Penn State
is "working with the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the
Humanities--a think-tank in Menlo Park, Cal.--to computerize,
categorize, and eventually analyze Telemann's work electronically."
(p.A17)
Matthew Gilmore