On the Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Composition and Theory
In his essay “Roots, Races, and the Return to Philology,” Geoffrey Galt Harpham traces the long and contorted history of philology in modern scholarship. Harpham notes that critics as different as Edward Said and Paul de Man each called for a “return to philology” in the final years of their respect...
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| Published in | The Two Cultures of English pp. 23 - 59 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United States
Fordham University Press
08.01.2019
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| Edition | 1 |
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| Summary: | In his essay “Roots, Races, and the Return to Philology,” Geoffrey Galt Harpham traces the long and contorted history of philology in modern scholarship. Harpham notes that critics as different as Edward Said and Paul de Man each called for a “return to philology” in the final years of their respective careers, and Harpham intimates that this demand “seems to be an urge experienced by those confronting their own mortality” (44). What strikes Harpham as more peculiar, however, is the fact that Said and de Man advanced wildly different conceptions of philology. In fact, both figures envisioned a return to |
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| ISBN: | 0823282465 9780823282463 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780823282487-002 |