Lönnroth Harry (ed.) Philology Matters! Essays on the Art of Reading Slowly

Brill, 2017. — 252 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 19).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. This collection is highly recommended for the richness of its contents and the great relevance of many of its topics.This book is about philology and its relevance over time. The compilation foregrounds a multi-faceted field of research that has dealt with the relationship between language, literature and culture for over 2,000 years. The main thread of this volume, comprising ten scholarly essays, is to show that philology as an academic field and a scholarly perspective―understood in its widest sense as the profound understanding of language, literature and culture―does matter in the twenty-first century, that is to say, in our own time characterized by globalization and digitalization. The contributions reflect the many dimensions of philology and its plurality, interdisciplinarity and the humanities. The volume seeks to illustrate various ways of engaging with philology. Here lies the true nature of philology, and this is why it still matters.Introduction: Why Philology Matters (Lönnroth).
Philology and the Problem of Culture (Jordheim).
Description and Reconstruction: An Alternative Categorization of Philological Approaches (Bäckvall).
Intertextuality and the Oral Continuum: The Multidisciplinary Challenge to Philology (Johansson).
Philological Virtues in a Virtual World (Akhøj Nielsen).
Philology as Explanation for Historical Contexts (Carlquist).
Romance Philology between Anachronism and Historical Truth: On Editing Medieval Vernacular Texts (Leonardi).
Levels of Granularity: Balancing Literary and Linguistic Interests in the Editing of Medieval Texts (Haugen).
The Philology of Translation (Lönnroth and Siponkoski).
Translating and Rewriting in the Middle Ages: A Philological Approach (Bampi).
Ludwig Traube and Philology (Merisalo).