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The Hourglass

Classics and the Dematerialization (or something else) of Philology

Ádám Rung

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Philology in the Making

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter 1
Table of contents 5
Introduction 9
1. Theories
How We Read 19
“The Return to Philology” 39
Pathological Philology 57
2. Materialities
The Hourglass 73
Paper Mythology 93
The Literary Manuscript 109
From Abstraction to Inscription and Back Again 129
On-the-Table 147
3. Practices
Opening, Turning, Closing 161
Combination of Order and Disorder 175
Fractures of Writing 185
New Practices = New Conditions? 197
4. Technologies
Sites of Digital Humanities 219
The Intertextual Frontiers of Vergil’s “Empire without Limit” 229
Calendar View 257
Micro and Macro, Close and Distant 269
Securing the Literary Evidence 287
On the authors 311

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839447703-005

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter 1
Table of contents 5
Introduction 9
1. Theories
How We Read 19
“The Return to Philology” 39
Pathological Philology 57
2. Materialities
The Hourglass 73
Paper Mythology 93
The Literary Manuscript 109
From Abstraction to Inscription and Back Again 129
On-the-Table 147
3. Practices
Opening, Turning, Closing 161
Combination of Order and Disorder 175
Fractures of Writing 185
New Practices = New Conditions? 197
4. Technologies
Sites of Digital Humanities 219
The Intertextual Frontiers of Vergil’s “Empire without Limit” 229
Calendar View 257
Micro and Macro, Close and Distant 269
Securing the Literary Evidence 287
On the authors 311

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