Language Arts & Disciplines by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

The Powers of Philology

Author: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 93

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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.
Literary Criticism by Hannes Bajohr

The Future of Philology

Author: Hannes Bajohr

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 225

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Philology, master science of the nineteenth century, has changed so radically over the course of the twentieth century that it is hardly recognizable in the twenty-first. Its scope has been transformed, its methodology contested, and its legitimacy called into doubt. Does it still make sense to speak institutionally and epistemologically of ‘philology’? Does this venerable title continue to signify a truly coherent field, and not a multitude of scattered currents and competing genealogies, differing national characteristics, and inconsistent methodologies? This volume collects answers by a range of young philologists, given at the 11th Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference. They show that philology, in its practices and theories, continues to be the fundament of the ever-expanding field of literature and language studies – and that a discipline whose very core is the care for the text wields competencies that are indispensable for neighboring fields. In conversation with Brecht and George, Hamann and Rilke, Nietzsche and Heidegger, these essays confront questions of materiality, epistemology, and ontology that define, as Sheldon Pollock put it, the “fate of a soft science in a hard world.”
Foreign Language Study by Constanze Güthenke

Feeling and Classical Philology

Author: Constanze Güthenke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 272

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Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.
Literary Criticism by John T. Hamilton

Philology of the Flesh

Author: John T. Hamilton

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 240

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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.
Social Science by Suman Gupta

Philology and Global English Studies

Author: Suman Gupta

Publisher: Springer

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Category: Social Science

Page: 253

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This book retraces the formation of modern English Studies by departing from philological scholarship along two lines: in terms of institutional histories and in terms of the separation of literary criticism and linguistics.
History by Edward L. Risden

The Year’s Work in Medievalism, 2011

Author: Edward L. Risden

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

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Category: History

Page: 110

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The Year's Work in Medievalism includes vetted essays from the Studies in Medievalism--now International Society for the Study of Medievalism--annual conference and from submissions to the editor throughout the year. The current volume includes a range of topics from medievalism in literature and art to the neomedievalism of movies and games. It includes these scholarly contributions: E. L. Risden, Introductory Letter from the Editor Gwendolyn Morgan, Recollections of Medievalism Richard Utz, Them Philologists: Philological Practices and Their Discontents from Nietzsche to Cerquiglini Clare Simmons, Really Ancient Druids in British Medievalist Drama Karl Fugelso, Neomedievalisms in Tom Phillips' Commedia Illustrations Jason Fisher, Some Contributions to Middle-earth Lexicography: Hapax Legomena in The Lord of the Rings Simon Roffey, The World of Warcraft: A Medievalist Perspective William Hodapp, Arthur, Beowulf, Robin Hood, and Hollywood's Desire for Origins M. J. Toswell, The Arthurian Landscapes of Guy Gavriel Kay
Classical philology by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

American Journal of Philology

Author: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

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Category: Classical philology

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Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."
German literature by Robert Scott Leventhal

Reading After Foucault

Author: Robert Scott Leventhal

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Category: German literature

Page: 269

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Reading After Foucault presents new readings of German literature, letters, and culture from 1750 to 1830, based upon the pioneering work of the late Michel Foucault. Discussing the structures of historical-thought systems, the emergence of the human sciences, modern institutions of reading and writing, and technologies of self-fashioning, the authors extend Foucault's research into the system of writing technologies and power relations and reexamine the canon and the disciplines and institutions which make it possible. The book seeks to contribute to a "history of the present" by analyzing the networks in and through which literary modernity has been manufactured. New readings of Wezel, Kleist, Reinhold, Herder, Schiller, Campe, Goethe, the story of Kaspar Hauser, Hölderlin, Hamann, and Novalis are featured.
History by William Aldis Wright

The Journal of Philology

Author: William Aldis Wright

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Category: History

Page: 340

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Published between 1868 and 1920, this 35-volume set illuminates the development of specialised academic journals as well as classical philology.
Foreign Language Study by Anonymous

The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 480

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This 1857 publication, comprising the previous year's issues of this short-lived journal, illuminates classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.
Anglais (Langue) - Dictionnaires hidatsa by Washington Matthews

Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians

Author: Washington Matthews

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Category: Anglais (Langue) - Dictionnaires hidatsa

Page: 239

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This work is based on Dr. Washington Matthews studies of the Hidatsa Indians while stated at a military post and serving as a medical officer of the Army. This work presents what Matthews learned by observing manners, customs, and other characteristics, as well as making a close and careful study of their language. The original intent was to publish this treatise as a portion of a general work on Indian ethnography, but a delay in publishing the larger work made it desirable to prepare this material as a separate publication.