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
rhetoric, literary criticism, and literary theory. Examining a
diverse group that includes Thomas More, Stephen Greenblatt, George
Hickes, Seamus Heaney, George Eliot, and Paul de Man, "Error and
the Academic Self" argues that this critical abstraction from
society and retreat into ivory towers allowed estranged individuals
to gain both a sense of private worth and the public legitimacy of
a professional identity.
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