Literary studies and the academy

In 1885 the University of Oxford invited applications for the newly created Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. The holder of the chair was, according to the statutes, to ‘lecture and give instruction on the broad history and criticism of English Language and Literature, and on the works of approved English authors’. This was not in itself a particularly innovatory move, as the study of English vernacular literature had played some part in higher education in Britain for over a century. Oxford University had put English as a subject into its pass degree in 1873, had been participating since 1878 in extension teaching, of which literary study formed a significant part, and had since 1881 been setting special examinations in the subject for its non-graduating women students. What was new was the fact that this ancient university appeared to be on the verge of granting the solid academic legitimacy of an established chair to an institutionally marginal and often contentious intellectual pursuit, acknowledging the study of literary texts in English to be a fit subject not just for women and the educationally disadvantaged but also for university men

Les Mongols du XIIIe siècle et le Slovo o polku Igoreve

Gumilev L. N. Les Mongols du XIIIe siècle et le Slovo o polku Igoreve. In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, vol. 7, n°1, Janvier-Mars 1966. pp. 37-57

FINANCIAL MECHANISM OF THE INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

This article considers the theoretical and practical issues of development of the financial mechanism of innovation activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Identified current conditions and preconditions of development of the existing financial mechanism of innovation activity. Proposed to use a multi-channel system of financing of science and innovation in Kazakhstan which based on the active involvement of the private and non-budgetary funds

Les fluctuations du niveau de la mer Caspienne [Variations climatiques et histoire des peuples nomades au sud de la plaine russe]

Gumilev L. N., Godneff N. Les fluctuations du niveau de la mer Caspienne [Variations climatiques et histoire des peuples nomades au sud de la plaine russe]. In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, vol. 6, n°3, Juillet-septembre 1965. pp. 331-366