After he was asked a long scholarly question about meaning and portent in his work, he sidestepped self-analysis and said simply, "We just write the books".
I don't think a great deal about how Shakespeare worked with his own actors – that feels more like a scholarly question to me, whereas we're trying to work in the here and now – but one thing you do realise: to pull all that off, to make the plays work as he seems to want them to work, those actors must have been extraordinary.
Here's the scholarly question at stake.
The return of the espadrille raised serious scholarly questions.
The iron laws of academic research have now largely excluded histories like this one, which addresses no scholarly questions and barely puts a toe into the swamps of professional discourse.
While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label "gay minister," and pursued a much wider range of studies, on early American religions, Elizabethan Puritanism, church music and the African-American experience.
"Why don't we call it 'It's Academic,' " she suggested, "as in 'it's academic, we don't have a TV.' " The result was a weekly tension-packed confrontation between Washington-area high schools, as students raced to be first to the buzzer to answer scholarly questions.
13 We maintain, however, that the changing, reflexive nature of improvement does not exempt improvement studies from answering the four fundamental questions required in all scholarly inquiry: Why did you start?
They work for acknowledgment of the authorship question as a legitimate field of scholarly inquiry and for acceptance of one or another of the various authorship candidates.
In 1973, after he had been named to a professorship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., many of the institute's faculty — whose members were overwhelmingly scientists and mathematicians — called his scholarly credentials into question.
There was no formal agenda and students were free to do what they liked provided, it was scholarly and answered questions of human cultural adaptation and change.
