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What Is Philology? From Crises of Reading to Comparative Reflections

Poetics Today, 2022
The article proposes a new definition of philology as a systematic engagement with crises of reading, focused on the difficulties that prevent readers from gaining access to or drawing meaning from a given text, all the way from scrubbed signs to ...
Sophus Helle
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A Philology of World Literature

Dante's New Life of the Book, 2021
This chapter argues for the importance of integrating the multiplicity of material copies of a work, such as Dante’s Vita nuova, into investigations of its meaning.
Martin G. Eisner
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Is lesbian identity obsolete? Some (limited) answers and further questions from a unique philology of human behavioral science perspective

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2021
Many scholarly disciplines focusing exclusively on human behavior can and do approach philology in some form in the conduct of their analyses, especially implicitly.
C. Tate
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Internalized Orientalism or World Philology? The Case of Modern Turkish Studies

History of Humanities, 2021
This article argues against some widespread beliefs concerning imperialist and orientalist influences on modern humanities in the non-Western world. Specifically, it contests the idea that modern Turkish philology in the reforming Ottoman Empire was ...
M. Leezenberg
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Unrooted trees discovered independently in philology and phylogenetics: a remarkable case of methodological convergence

Systematics and Biodiversity, 2016
Flávio A Bockmann
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The “Vernacular” Babel: The Linguistic Survey of India and Colonial Philology

Modern philology, 2021
The discipline of philology in recent years has been subjected to two distinct—in fact, oppositional—demands. On the one hand, it has been feted by many as the ground on which modern humanities disciplines will have to reinvent themselves, especially in ...
B. Bhattacharya
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Pratyabhijñā and Philology

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2021
A somewhat problematic book has recently been devoted to one of the most fascinating (and neglected) works of Kashmirian Śaiva Advaita: the Śivadṛṣṭi by Somānanda. This furnishes the occasion for broader reflection on the role of philology in dealing with the complex texts of the Pratyabhijñā tradition (or perhaps in ...
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The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
This book argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible aimed to stabilize the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable.
D. Miert
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Philology

2020
Philology—from the Greek words philologi’ā < philos “friend” and logos “word”—is a multi-faceted field of scholarship within the humanities which in its widest sense focuses on questions of time, history, and literature—with language as the common denominator.
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Toward a Trans Philology

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2020
:This essay charts the circuitous trajectory of the words "transfeminate" and "transexion" as they travel from their textual origin, Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), through various lexicons, both early modern and modern.
Joseph Gamble
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