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Be a More Productive Scholar
  • Kenneth A. Kiewra
  • Published online:
    28 March 2024
    Print publication:
    04 April 2024
  • Some scholars are highly productive. They break new ground and do it again and again. Their names and ideas are ubiquitous in scientific journals and scholarly books. They scoff at 'publish or perish.' To them, it's 'publish and flourish.' But how are they so productive, publishing hundreds of powerful works over their careers? Most graduate students, junior faculty, and even senior faculty have no idea. The methods of the productive are rarely taught and remain a hidden-curriculum. Kenneth A. Kiewra interviewed dozens of productive scholars to uncover the hidden curriculum of scholarly success. Be a More Productive Scholar now reveals those productivity stories and methods by dispensing more than 100 pointers for enhancing professional development and boosting scholarly productivity. Graduate students to seasoned scholars can benefit from this career-guiding advice.

  • Chapter 3 - The Widow and the Sovereign

  • Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago
  • Book:
    Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron
    Published online:
    07 August 2023
    Print publication:
    01 June 2023, pp 84-110

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the poetics of punishment, contrasting Dante’s contrappasso (countersuffering) with Boccaccio’s beffa (prank). It argues that, for Boccaccio, Dante’s contrappasso illustrates a “hegemonic” conception of justice. In this sovereign system of justice, criminal offenders have to pay back more than an eye for an eye: they owe a debt to the divine “state” above and beyond that owed to the victim. The beffa instead embodies a communitarian form of justice in which victims are fairly compensated. In the art of the beffa, it lacks decorum to take more than an eye for an eye. Boccaccio brilliantly reveals how Dantean violence needs always to be in excess; what is poetic in this form of poetic justice is its license to “outdo” tradition. Boccaccio explores this phenomenon in the haunting tale of the scholar and the widow (8.7), where the scholar punishes a widow who humiliates him by forcing her to endure a series of Dantean punishments. In doing so, he turns private vengeance into sovereign punishment, teaching her a lesson on behalf of all scholars.