For me, the first rapturous stirrings were experienced at a time when I convinced myself that I was really on to something, that my own hypothesis concerning (as it happens) the origins of the King Arthur stories might actually have some faint scholarly merit.
That bias cannot be permitted to interfere with evaluations that should be based on scholarly merit rather than gender.
"He was awarded the Order of Merit for his scholarly work but also for his contribution, while in exile, to the democratic transition,'' said Stola.
This passage explains the background to the Nativity: : Rather than conspicuous literary merit, the chief scholarly value of the Ormulum derives from Orm's idiosyncratic orthographical system (Treharne 2000, p. 273).
So where does Mr. Fish — who has written a study of "The Fugitive" along with more conventional scholarly fare — come down on the literary merits of Suzanne Collins's trilogy?
Voltaire, for example, liked the idea of a state led by scholarly mandarins, chosen on the basis of intellectual merit in a strict examination system.
On a similar note, it states of the NEA, "Taxpayer assistance of the arts is neither necessary nor prudent Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for plays, paintings, pageants, and scholarly journals, regardless of the works' attraction or merit".
I strongly feel that scholarly (and creative) work should be reviewed on its merits and that resorting to personal attacks on creators of published work is uncalled for at best and demeaning to the critic at worst.
His scholarly interests ranged from abstruse matters such as the theoretical merits of setting a formal inflation target to historical questions, including the causes of the Great Depression.
Critical enough to merit applause that may come from environmentalists, and scholarly enough to make you feel that you deserve college credit for reading it.
