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Informationen zum Autor Seth Lerer Klappentext How 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. Zusammenfassung Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt! from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney! from George Eliot to Paul de Man! this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles! emigres! dissenters! and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric! literary criticism and literary theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Pursuit of Error: Philology! Rhetoric! and the History of Scholarship1. Errata: Mistakes and Masters in the Early Modern Book2. Sublime Philology: An Elegy for Anglo-Saxon Studies3. My Casaubon: The Novel of Scholarship and Victorian Philology4. Ardent Etymologies: American Rhetorical Philology! from Adams to de Man5. Making Mimesis: Exile! Errancy! and Erich AuerbachEpilogue: Forbidden Planet and the Terrors of Philology
