Genetic Criticism with Textual Criticism: From Variant to Variation

Some Basic Textual Criticism Terms Defined

Textual criticism in Indology and in European

This paper discusses the post-enlightenment development of philology in Europe during the 19-20 centuries, particularly in the German speaking areas. After several centuries of sustained interest in the Graeco-Roman Classics, all types of medieval, older European and Asian literatures became the focus of new textual approaches. Prominent was an historical and critical approach bolstered by the ...

Criticism from Homer to Aristotle

CRITICISM as an instinctive reaction to the performance of poetry is as old as song,” writes George Kennedy in beginning theCambridge History of Literary Criticism, and Kenneth Dover reminds readers of the Frogs that “in pre-literate cultures the composition of songs is a process in which discussion and criticism, often passionate, play an important part—and inevitably so, because aesthetic rea...

Monolingual alignment with moves for genetic criticism

RÉSUMÉ. Cet article présente la problématique de l’alignement monolingue avec recherche de déplacements. Celle-ci est posée par la critique génétique, une discipline d’études littéraires. Les solutions informatiques existantes ne sont pas satisfaisantes pour répondre à ce problème NP-difficile. Nous proposons d’emprunter à la bioinformatique et l’algorithmique textuelle une famille d’algorithme...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...