Philology Matters! Essays on the Art of Reading Slowly comprises ten scholarly essays on philology and seeks to illustrate various ways of engaging with it.
Author(s): Harry Lonnroth
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 252
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Introduction: Why Philology Matters (Lönnroth)......Page 14
Chapter 1. Philology and the Problem of Culture (Jordheim)......Page 27
Chapter 2. Description and Reconstruction: An Alternative Categorization of Philological Approaches (Bäckvall)......Page 47
Chapter 3. Intertextuality and the Oral Continuum: The Multidisciplinary Challenge to Philology (Johansson)......Page 61
Chapter 4. Philological Virtues in a Virtual World (Akhøj Nielsen)......Page 84
Chapter 5. Philology as Explanation for Historical Contexts (Carlquist)......Page 101
Chapter 6. Romance Philology between Anachronism and Historical Truth: On Editing Medieval Vernacular Texts (Leonardi)......Page 123
Chapter 7. Levels of Granularity: Balancing Literary and Linguistic Interests in the Editing of Medieval Texts (Haugen)......Page 144
Chapter 8. The Philology of Translation (Lönnroth and Siponkoski)......Page 162
Chapter 9. Translating and Rewriting in the Middle Ages: A Philological Approach (Bampi)......Page 190
Chapter 10. Ludwig Traube and Philology (Merisalo)......Page 208
Bibliography......Page 223
Index......Page 244
