Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Seth Lerer
How & why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism & correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval & Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, & this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, émigrés, dissenters, & the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology & rhetoric, literary criticism, & literary theory. Examining a diverse group that includes Thomas More, Stephen Greenblatt, George Hickes, Seamus Heaney, George Eliot, & Paul de Man, Error & the Academic Self argues that this critical abstraction from society & retreat into ivory towers allowed estranged individuals to gain both a sense of private worth & the public legitimacy of a professional identity.
Рік:
2003
Видавництво:
Columbia University Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
388
ISBN 10:
023150747X
ISBN 13:
9780231507479
Файл:
EPUB, 1.45 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003