Art of Literary Research

Name: Art of Literary Research
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ISBN: 9780393962406

ISBN-10: 0393962407

ISBN-13: 9780393962406

Edition: 4th 1993

Authors: Richard D. Altick, John J. Fenstermaker

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For interested readers who have other vocational plans, its authors-experienced researchers themselves-provide an intimate view of the way professional scholars go about their specialized and challenging tasks.This extensively revised Fourth Edition takes full account of recent developments that have virtually revolutionized certain important areas of the discipline. The computer, as newly written pages demonstrate, not only has eliminated much of the drudgery formerly associated with the gathering, storage, and retrieval of raw data but has made possible many analytical and lexical operations that had been beyond human capacity, yet without diminishing the amount of sheer brain work still…

Book details

List price: $51.85
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.86" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Richard D. Altick was Regents' Professor of English at Ohio State University. Among his numerous previously published works are The Scholar Adventurers, The English Common Reader, and Victorian People and Ideas.



Preface to the Fourth Edition



Vocation



The Spirit of Scholarship



Error: Its Prevalence, Progress, and Persistence



Examining the Evidence



Two Applications of the Critical Spirit: Fixing Dates and Testing Authenticity



Some Scholarly Occupations



Textual Study



Problems of Authorship



The Search for Origins



Tracing Reputation and Influence



Cultivating a Sense of the Past



Finding Materials



Libraries



Making Notes



The Philosophy of Composition



The Scholar's Life


For Further Reading


Exercises


Index