The Powers of Philology

Hans Gumbrecht is the Albert Guerard Professor of Literature at Stanford University, an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Universite de Montreal, and directeur d'etudes associe at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. His more than four hundred publications have been translated into seventeen languages.

出版者:University of Illinois Press

作者:Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

页数:104

出版时间:2003-5-7

价格:USD 31.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780252028304

图书标签:Philology语文学理论比较文学文学理论philologymzdUlrich

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 inspiredphilology since its Hellenistic beginnings: the desire to make the past present again by embodying it.

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