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Title Philology matters! : essays on the art of reading slowly / edited by Harry Lonnroth
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Series Medieval and renaissance authors and texts, 0925-7683 ; volume 19
Contents Introduction: why philology matters / Harry Lonnroth -- Philology and the problem of culture / Helge Jordheim -- Description and reconstruction: an alternative categorization of philological approaches / Maja Backvall -- Intertextuality and the oral continuum: the multidisciplinary challenge to philology / Karl G. Johansson -- Philological virtues in a virtual world / Marita Akhoj Nielsen -- Philology as explanation for historical contexts / Jonas Carlquist -- Romance philology between anachronism and historical truth: on editing medieval vernacular texts / Lino Leonardi -- Levels of granularity: balancing literary and linguistic interests in the editing of medieval texts / Odd Einar Haugen -- The philology of translation / Harry Lonnroth and Nestori Siponkoski -- Translating and rewriting in the Middle Ages: a philological approach / Massimiliano Bampi -- Ludwig Traube and philology / Outi Merisalo
Summary This book is about philology and its relevance over time. The compilation foregrounds a multi-faceted field of research that has dealt with the relationship between language, literature and culture for over 2,000 years. The main thread of this volume, comprising ten scholarly essays, is to show that philology as an academic field and a scholarly perspective - understood in its widest sense as the profound understanding of language, literature and culture - does matter in the twenty-first century, that is to say, in our own time characterized by globalization and digitalization. The contributions reflect the many dimensions of philology and its plurality, interdisciplinarity and the humanities. The volume seeks to illustrate various ways of engaging with philology. Here lies the true nature of philology, and this is why it still matters. Contributors are Massimiliano Bampi, Maja Bäckvall, Jonas Carlquist, Odd Einar Haugen, Helge Jordheim, Karl G. Johansson, Lino Leonardi, Harry Lönnroth, Outi Merisalo, Marita Akhøj Nielsen and Nestori Siponkoski
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Philology.
Philology
philology.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
Philology
Form Electronic book
Author Lönnroth, Harry, editor
LC no. 2017037963
ISBN 9789004349568
9004349561