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Paperback Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern Book

ISBN: 0231123736

ISBN13: 9780231123730

Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

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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, migr s, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and...

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