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Joseph Greenberg’s comparative notebooks

Posted on 10 April 2017 by judithkaplan — 1 Comment

Judith Kaplan University of Pennsylvania In John Webster Spargo’s 1931 translation of Holger Pedersen’s contribution to the genre of Disziplingeschichte, readers are introduced to a legion of mostly well-bearded men, marching toward the ‘discovery’ of the Comparative Method. Summing up…

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