On McGann's "philological conscience"

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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_11

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philology, history, digitization

Abstract

Book review of Jerome McGann, A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014, 238 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-72869-1.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_11

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Matheus de Brito, University of Coimbra | CLP

Matheus de Brito, brazilian, born in 1988, João Pessoa-PB. Graduate student from University of Coimbra and, under joint supervision, State University of Campinas. His ongoing PhD dissertation addresses the now secular divide between literary theory and aesthetics and discusses the necessity of dispelling linguistics in order to work-through contemporary experience.

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MCGANN, Jerome (2014). A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Published

2016-02-28

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Brito, Matheus de. 2016. “On McGann’s "Philological conscience"”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 4 (1):181-84. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_11.

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016): Digital Literary Studies 1

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Recensões | Reviews

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