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Title: | Lessons from the Past? | Contributor(s): | Dale, Leigh (author); McDonell, Jennifer (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1215/00267929-2416563 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20239 | Abstract: | Today, how can we not speak of the university?... Have I said how one must not speak, today, of the university? Or have I rather spoken as one should not do today, within the University? Only others can answer. Beginning with you. - Jacques Derrida (1983: 3, 20) Let us begin with the first keyword in our title, lesson, whose first English meaning the OED traces to the 1580s: "an occurrence from which something can be learned" (from Middle English, from Old French leçon, from Latin 'lectionem' [nominative 'lectio']), "a reading," a noun of action from the past participle stem of 'legere', "to read." The word's early derivations richly suggest, as does the complex history of English as a discipline, its entanglement in other narratives and other disciplines. Lesson, from the thirteenth-century word for "a reading aloud from the Bible," can also refer to a portion of scripture read in divine service - hence, to religion and English literature, as Alison Wood's essay discusses - and reading aloud (recitation and memorization). This is opposed to the more recent practice of silently reading long, complex texts in the vernacular for the purposes of academic study, which must be, as Catherine Robson's work has brilliantly demonstrated, part of the reframing of the story of education in the second half of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth century. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Modern Language Quarterly, 75(2), p. 119-127 | Publisher: | Duke University Press | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1527-1943 0026-7929 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200503 British and Irish Literature | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470504 British and Irish literature | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950203 Languages and Literature 950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130203 Literature 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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