Characteristics of the Literature of Literary Scholarship.

The aim of the study was to determine how researchers use the literature that constitutes literary scholarship. For this purpose three creative writers and three literary movements were selected for analysis. The 1976-80 volumes of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index provided access to the articles written on the subjects chosen. The references cited by the authors of the articles, along with the form analysis of the articles themselves, constituted the substance on which the results of the study were based. The results support the contention that humanistic scholarship and the methods by which its characteristics are studied and analyzed are distinct and unique and require different methodology than that used for the analysis of information transfer in the sciences and social sciences.