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

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

Seth Lerer

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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 si...

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