03794nam 2200721 a 450 991045604920332120210622023034.00-231-50747-X10.7312/lere12372(CKB)111087026931524(EBL)909121(OCoLC)826476616(SSID)ssj0000149030(PQKBManifestationID)11162076(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149030(PQKBWorkID)10237774(PQKB)11315081(MiAaPQ)EBC909121(DE-B1597)459055(OCoLC)979628411(DE-B1597)9780231507479(Au-PeEL)EBL909121(CaPaEBR)ebr10183429(CaONFJC)MIL853722(EXLCZ)9911108702693152420020605d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrError and the academic self[electronic resource] the scholarly imagination, medieval to modern /Seth LererNew York Columbia University Press20021 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-12373-6 0-231-12372-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --introduction. The Pursuit of Error: Philology, Rhetoric, and the History of Scholarship --Chapter one. Errata: Mistakes and Masters in the Early Modern Book --Chapter two. Sublime Philology: An Elegy for Anglo-Saxon Studies --Chapter three. My Casaubon: The Novel of Scholarship and Victorian Philology --Chapter four. Ardent Etymologies: American Rhetorical Philology, from Adams to de Man --Chapter five. Making Mimesis: Exile, Errancy, and Erich Auerbach --Epilogue. Forbidden Planet and the Terrors of Philology --Notes --IndexHow and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, émigrés, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism, and literary theory. Examining a diverse group that includes Thomas More, Stephen Greenblatt, George Hickes, Seamus Heaney, George Eliot, and Paul de Man, Error and the Academic Self argues that this critical abstraction from society and retreat into ivory towers allowed estranged individuals to gain both a sense of private worth and the public legitimacy of a professional identity.English philologyHistoryScholarly publishingGreat BritainErrors and blunders, LiteraryHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcErrorHistoryGreat BritainIntellectual lifeElectronic books.English philologyHistory.Scholarly publishingErrors and blunders, LiteraryHistory.English literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.American literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.ErrorHistory.820.9Lerer Seth1955-868124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456049203321Error and the academic self2487651UNINA