Hey folks--lighten up! We all have somewhat different notions of what
constitutes intellectual shallowness and precision. I admire the passion
many of the participants have shown lately, but this is starting to feel a
little like the early cantos of FQ 4. These threads have been too
amusing, challenging, curious, hyperbolic, suggestive to let them devolve
into something else. If some of us are shallow and imprecise, I think
we'll be best helped in our error by new models of depth and precision.
Cheers,
John
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, shirley sharon-zisser wrote:
> Condescention having been mentioned, I would like to say that my outrage
> against intellectual shallowness and lack of precise thinking displayed in
> this list and much pseudo-historicist Renaissance scholarship of the past
> two decades was increased when Professor Prescott's promise to include a
> reference to Stephen Whitworth's article on Barnfield, if she could, in the
> forthcoming volume edited by Klawitter and Borris made me realize the
> editors had not mentioned the article, of which they were well aware, to
> their contributors, even though it is the most recent, and still one of the
> only pieces devoted to Barnfield.
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> This is not only condescension, not only yet another symptom of
> anti-intellectualism in Renaissance studies, but a violation of
> professional ethics worthy of being reported to the MLA and other
> professional organizations. I would expect intellectually responsible
> members of this list, certainly those contributing to the Klawitter/Borris
> volume who had not been informed of the article, to denounce this behaviour.
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> Shirley Sharon-Zisser
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