The Consequences of “The Age of Manuscripts.” The Reconstruction of an Era

There will always be pedants and archives, and their services, suitably strained, will always be necessary.René WellekThe fundamental procedure of the history of literature is always reconstruction: this is a feature of historical studies, which take the chaos of information contained in sources an...

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Autor principal: Karpiński, Adam
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Teksty Drugie 2024
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:There will always be pedants and archives, and their services, suitably strained, will always be necessary.René WellekThe fundamental procedure of the history of literature is always reconstruction: this is a feature of historical studies, which take the chaos of information contained in sources and use them to extract facts, form them into a whole, and insert them into the chain of causes and effects. On the one hand, the concept of reconstruction is linked in an extremely obvious manner wi...