A favorite scholarly idea is that these questions mistake Shakespeare's real purpose, which was to invent a group of characters in order to play with Petrarchan conventions.
None of it was about the personal, confessional, diary-keeping impulse, nor about the scholarly idea of writing about things to be accurate.
To him it was a scholarly idea, written for scholarly journals, intended to address the big theological question of the postwar era: how to reconcile the notion of an all-powerful God with an overwhelmingly secular and often brutal modern life.
Still, he said, "a deeper immersion" and interplay between scholarly ideas and political curiosity is needed.
Mr. Ferguson is known for provocative theories and for an ability to render scholarly ideas in layman-friendly terms.
The supply-side movement likes to present itself as a school of economic thought like Keynesianism or monetarism -- that is, as a set of scholarly ideas that made their way, as such ideas do, into political discussion.
Using an anecdotal conversation with one nameless individual to paint an entire region with millions of people as "the most reactionary, intolerant and illiberal population within Ukraine," is not a particularly good -- or scholarly -- idea.
Part of it was that Cornell — the man and the photographer — represented photojournalism, so the real challenge for me was to take the institution to the next level, where it wasn't just a matter of showing photography, alone, but doing things that were also scholarly, giving ideas the time and attention and energy that they needed.
Although creating a strategy for determining the best type of placement for your assets is a subject worthy of complex scholarly papers, the idea is intuitive.
From 1974 to 1980, Archbishop Coggan brought progressive ideas, scholarly training and passionate evangelism to his leadership of the 30 million Anglicans in Britain.
Coinciding with the enthronement of minimalism in New York as the latest in serious avant-gardery, the exhibition associated radical innovation with iconoclasm and mocked the rhetoric of abstract-expressionist splashed and slashed paints with its elaborate, even scholarly development of ideas and individual works.
