On Philology

Author : James Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691168586

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Philology by James Turner Pdf

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word? In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.

Author : Paola Italia,Giulia Raboni,Marco Presotto,Sònia Boadas,Margherita Centenari,Francesco Feriozzi,Carmela Marranchino,Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800640269

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What is Authorial Philology? by Paola Italia,Giulia Raboni,Marco Presotto,Sònia Boadas,Margherita Centenari,Francesco Feriozzi,Carmela Marranchino,Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst Pdf

A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides readers with an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of editing ‘authorial texts’ alongside an exploration of authorial philology in its cultural and conceptual architecture. The originality and distinction of this work lies in its clear systematization of a discipline whose autonomous status has only recently been recognised (at least in Italy), though its roots may extend back as far as Giorgio Pasquali. This pioneering volume offers both a methodical set of instructions on how to read critical editions, and a wide range of practical examples, expanding upon the conceptual and methodological apparatus laid out in the first two chapters. By presenting a thorough account of the historical and theoretical framework through which authorial philology developed, Paola Italia and Giulia Raboni successfully reconceptualize the authorial text as an ever-changing organism, subject to alteration and modification. What is Authorial Philology? will be of great didactic value to students and researchers alike, providing readers with a fuller understanding of the rationale behind different editing practices, and addressing both traditional and newer methods such as the use of the digital medium and its implications. Spanning the whole Italian tradition from Petrarch to Carlo Emilio Gadda, this ground-breaking volume provokes us to consider important questions concerning a text’s dynamism, the extent to which an author is ‘agentive’, and, most crucially, about the very nature of what we read.

Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0271007168

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On Philology by Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

As the Byzantinist Ihor &Šev&_enko once observed, &"Philology is constituting and interpreting the texts that have come down to us. It is a narrow thing, but without it nothing else is possible.&" This definition accords with Saussure's succinct description of the mission of philology: &"especially to correct, interpret, and comment upon the texts.&" Philology is not just a grand etymological or lexicographical enterprise. It also involves restoring to works as much of their original life and nuances as we can manage. To read the written records of bygone civilizations correctly requires knowledge of cultural history in a broad sense: of folklore, legends, laws, and customs. Philology also encompasses the forms in which texts express their messages, and thus it includes stylistics, metrics, and similar studies. On Philology brings together the papers delivered at a 1988 conference at Harvard University's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. The topic &"What is Philology?&" drew an interdisciplinary audience whose main fields of research ran the gamut from ancient Indo-European languages to African-American literature, signaling a certain sense of urgency about a seemingly narrow subject. These papers reveal that the role of philology is more important than ever. At a time when literature in printed form has taken a back seat to television, film, and music, it is crucial that scholars be able to articulate why students and colleagues should care about the books with which they work. Just as knowledge will be lost if philological standards decline, so too will fields of study die if their representatives cannot find meaning for today's readers. On Philology will be of interest not only to students of philology but also to anyone working in the fields of hermeneutics, literature, and communication.

Author : Jan Ziolkowski
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271044620

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On Philology by Jan Ziolkowski Pdf

Author : John T. Hamilton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226572826

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Philology of the Flesh by John T. Hamilton Pdf

As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, “the Word became Flesh.” Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to the nature of language. In Philology of the Flesh, John T. Hamilton explores writing and reading practices that engage this notion in a range of poetic enterprises and theoretical reflections. By pressing the notion of philology as “love” (philia) for the “word” (logos), Hamilton’s readings investigate the breadth, depth, and limits of verbal styles that are irreducible to mere information. While a philologist of the body might understand words as corporeal vessels of core meaning, the philologist of the flesh, by focusing on the carnal qualities of language, resists taking words as mere containers. By examining a series of intellectual episodes—from the fifteenth-century Humanism of Lorenzo Valla to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, from Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann to Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan—Philology of the Flesh considers the far-reaching ramifications of the incarnational metaphor, insisting on the inseparability of form and content, an insistence that allows us to rethink our relation to the concrete languages in which we think and live.

Author : Sheldon Pollock,Benjamin A. Elman,Ku-ming Kevin Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674052864

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World Philology by Sheldon Pollock,Benjamin A. Elman,Ku-ming Kevin Chang Pdf

Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004349568

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Philology Matters! by Anonim Pdf

Philology Matters! Essays on the Art of Reading Slowly comprises ten scholarly essays on philology and seeks to illustrate various ways of engaging with it.

Author : Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0252028309

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The Powers of Philology by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Pdf

Philology--the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical texts--was once a firmly established discipline that formed the core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and literary fields. Although philology departments are steadily disappearing from contemporary educational establishments, in this book Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht demonstrates that the problems, standards, and methods of philology remain as vital as ever. For two and a half millennia philologists have viewed themselves as the modest heirs and curators of their textual past's most glorious periods, collecting and editing text fragments, historicizing them and adding commentary, and ultimately teaching them to contemporary readers. Gumbrecht argues for a return to this tradition as an alternative to an often free-floating textual interpretation and to the more recent redefinition of literary studies as "cultural studies," which risks a loss of intellectual focus. Such a return to philological core exercises, however, can become more than yet another movement of academic nostalgia only if it takes into account the hidden desire that has inspired philology since its Hellenistic beginnings: the desire to make the past present again by embodying it.

Author : Catherine Conybeare,Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494830

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Classical Philology and Theology by Catherine Conybeare,Simon Goldhill Pdf

Explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between classical philology and theology.

Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804736987

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Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future by James I. Porter Pdf

Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. By showing how frequently the "later" Nietzsche appears in the early writings, the author hopes to provoke reflection on the adequacy of the developmental logic that has been a controlling factor in Nietzsche's reception.

Author : Ruth S. Noel
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395291305

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The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel Pdf

Presents a comprehensive pocket guide to the fourteen languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth and contains a dictionary and English/Elvish glossary, rules of grammar and pronunciation, and how to write the Elvish alphabet.

Author : Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : English language
ISBN : OXFORD:600071445

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Modern Philology by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight Pdf

Author : H. Momma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521518864

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From Philology to English Studies by H. Momma Pdf

An exploration of how philology contributed to the study of English language and literature in the nineteenth century.

Author : Constanze Güthenke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107104235

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Feeling and Classical Philology by Constanze Güthenke Pdf

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Author : Ton van Kalmthout,H. J. Zuidervaart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : 9089645918

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The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-century Netherlands by Ton van Kalmthout,H. J. Zuidervaart Pdf

This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts began an accelerated process of specialization in Dutch scholarship of the 1800s.