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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: James Turner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069116858X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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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.

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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: University of Pennsylvania
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: University of Pennsylvania
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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Roman Jakobson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674510289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Essays discuss realism, futurism, Dada, the grammar of poetry, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, Blake, and semiotic theory.

Author: University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pa..
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Languages : en
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Author: H. D. Adamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107045401
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.

Author: Sheldon Pollock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674052862
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia after decades of neglect. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and historical time periods in which it has been practiced, and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is an essential component of human understanding. Every civilization has developed ways of interpreting the texts that it produces, and differences of philological practice are as instructive as the similarities. We owe our idea of a textual edition for example, to the third-century BCE scholars of the Alexandrian Library. Rabbinical philology created an innovation in hermeneutics by shifting focus from how the Bible commands to what it commands. Philologists in Song China and Tokugawa Japan produced startling insights into the nature of linguistic signs. In the early modern period, new kinds of philology arose in Europe but also among Indian, Chinese, and Japanese commentators, Persian editors, and Ottoman educationalists who began to interpret texts in ways that had little historical precedent. They made judgments about the integrity and consistency of texts, decided how to create critical editions, and determined what it actually means to read. Covering a wide range of cultures—Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Indo-Persian, Japanese, Ottoman, and modern European—World Philology lays the groundwork for a new scholarly discipline.

Author: William Allan Neilson
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Category : Courts of love
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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