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Teaching Literature as Aberrant Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

John K. Noyes
John K. Noyes*
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University of Toronto
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To be a teacher of literature at a university today is to occupy a problematic position in the production and codification of knowledge - a fact that has generated a great deal of critical comment in recent years. But it should be noted that this position in its problematic dimensions is not necessarily new. In fact there is reason to believe that the teacher of literature has always been a propagator of an aberrant science - yet a science that in its aberrations has more to do with the methodological problems of the natural sciences than is usually credited.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 50 , Issue 2: Languages and Literature in a Global Perspective , May 2003 , pp. 55 - 64
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Copyright © ICPHS 2003

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