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Abstract
The pluralism of “legitimate” approaches to texts characteristic of academic literary studies in the late 1960s and the 1970s, along with American institutions' general tendency to severe historical amnesia, has obscured New Criticism's ideological role from the 1940s on. In The Critical Twilight, Fekete clarifies and challenges the categories of this movement, which he calls “modern bourgeois critical theory” and he seeks to show how they “distort or exclude those structural variables that are essential for any meaningful project of social and human liberation” (xv).
Fekete's structuring of the text reveals the insidious nature and historical continuity of what, following T.S. Eliot, he calls “the tradition.”
Als der Film zu E.L. Doctorows Roman Ragtime auf den Markt kam, berichtete ein prominenter Filmkritiker nach einem Interview mit dem Regisseur Milos Forman, die Geschichte basiere auf einem kurzen Roman von Frederick Kleist mit dem Titel My Coal House. Von amerikanischen Germanisten wird diese Anekdote mit verbitterter Genüßlichkeit weitererzählt, und zwar als Hinweis auf den sozialen Kontext der Germanistik hierzulande: es gibt nämlich keinen. Dergleichen Erfahrungen häufen sich im Leben des amerikanischen Germanisten. In einem Bericht über das Tübinger Stift im Reiseteil unserer ehrwürdigsten Zeitung wird Schelling mit Schiller verwechselt. Als Elias Canetti den Nobelpreis erhielt, wurde er in sämtlichen Medien als bulgarischer Schriftsteller identifiziert. Nachdem es sich herumgesprochen hatte, daß er auf deutsch schreibe, kamen Kollegen zu mir mit der Frage, ob ich jemals von ihm gehört hätte.
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present a systems perspective of context avenues that impact the knowledge‐sharing process.
Design/methodology/approach
– Following a brief introduction of the meaning of context, an example of face‐to‐face interaction is used to explore the term “context‐sensitive” in terms of sharing knowledge in a one‐way single exchange from a source to a perceiver. Eight different context avenues are presented, their relationship to the conscious and unconscious mind addressed, and their impact on the sharing of knowledge considered.
Findings
– The authors posit that there are eight primary context avenues that potentially impact the creation of knowledge in terms of shared understanding and meaning, and that the higher the number of related patterns forwarded through content and context the greater the resonance of shared understanding. Further, that the unconscious mind plays a significant role in embedding context and creating meaning.
Originality/value
– This paper provides a shift in perception from the transmission of information to the sharing and re‐creation of knowledge in terms of shared understanding and meaning. It also presents a new model of context avenues impacting the sharing of knowledge.
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