the philological interpretation of the author ought to be preserved and surpassed in the Hegelian manner by dialectical materialists

the philologist at his corrupt codex

English was a upstart, amateurish affair as academic subjects went, hardly able to compete on equal terms with the rigours of Greats or philology; since every English gentleman read his own literature in his spare time anyway, what was the point of submitting it to systematic study

A new avant-garde also emerged from among philology students in Leningrad, who looked to the poetry of the pre- and post-revolutionary experimentalists

As will be apparent, the style is that not of an ‘introduction’, but of a semi-philological, semi-philosophical discussion