Error and the Academic Self

preview-18
  • Error and the Academic Self Book Detail

  • Author : Seth Lerer
  • Release Date : 2003-03-17
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 474
  • ISBN 13 : 023150747X
  • File Size : 47,47 MB

Error and the Academic Self by Seth Lerer PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Error and the Academic Self books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Error and the Academic Self

Error and the Academic Self

File Size : 90,90 MB
Total View : 3833 Views
DOWNLOAD

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

Chaucer and His Readers

Chaucer and His Readers

File Size : 59,59 MB
Total View : 4318 Views
DOWNLOAD

Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system th

The Yale Companion to Chaucer

The Yale Companion to Chaucer

File Size : 62,62 MB
Total View : 4583 Views
DOWNLOAD

A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of c

La Vita Nuova

La Vita Nuova

File Size : 2,2 MB
Total View : 8862 Views
DOWNLOAD

La Vita Nuova (1292–94) has many aspects. Dante’s libello, or “little book,” is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the