Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 18:21:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott Stebelman <scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: Re: 11.0662 works on methodology?
Many relevant citations will be found in "Studies of Interest to English
and American Literature Librarians." The URL is:
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib/english.html
Scott Stebelman
Faculty Outreach Librarian
Gelman Library
George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052
202/994-1342 (work)
202/994-1340 (fax)
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On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 662.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:41:59 +0000
> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
> >
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am interested in compiling a selective bibliography of writings on
> methodology in the fields of the humanities. Thanks to Jascha Kessler I know
> about and have read M.I. (Sir Moses) Finley's very fine little book, Ancient
> History: Evidence and Models (New York: Viking, 1986) and can recommend
> especially chapter 2, "The Ancient Historian and his Sources". I'd like to
> know about other works, whether focused on a single discipline, like
> Finley's, or across the humanities. I'd also appreciate knowing about any
> reactions against explicit emphasis on methodology, as I know there has been
> in specific fields.
>
> Finley's book turns on the questions "to be asked of any written source...
> why was it written? why was it 'published'?" Our tendency, especially strong
> in humanities computing, especially as resource-provision has come to
> dominate the field, is to think that access to more and more resources
> solves most if not all problems. I'm certainly not thinking that more data
> makes things worse, but we must be told, as Sir Moses does not hesitate to
> do, that the aims of the people whose works we study are primary.
> Considering the question of why historians such as Livy and Plutarch
> "cheerfully repeated pages upon pages of earlier accounts over which they
> neither had nor sought any control", he concludes that "Something other than
> intelligence was involved, which in the end must come down to a radically
> different notion from ours of the nature and purpose of the historical
> exercise" (8).
>
> Replies to Humanist, please.
>
> Yours,
> WM
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