Spring 2017・Mon. 2:10-4pm
World Philology
Instructor: David Lurie DBL11@columbia.edu
Philology means, broadly, all practices of making sense of texts. Students will encounter its key fields–textual criticism, lexicography, grammar, and, above all, commentary–not in the abstract but as instantiated in relation to four foundational works (the Confucian Analects, the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Aeneid, and the Tale of Genji) and the scholarly traditions that grew up around them.
