Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Term of Abuse
Michael Holquist, "Forgetting Our Name, Remembering Our Mother,"
PMLA 115.7 (December, 2000) 1975-1977 (at 1976):
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Philology is widely thought to be dead. Moreover, her corpse, like that of Father Zosima, gives off an unpleasant odor. Her name has become a term of abuse. "Philologist" is what you call the dull boys and girls of the profession.The American Philological Association, a few years ago, changed its name to The Society for Classical Studies.
