This note clarifies the theory of perceptual misalignment and presence in Homeric philology, suggesting an interconnected framework for understanding textuality.
This note clarifies the relation between the theory of perceptual misalignment, the field of access, Auerbach’s account of Homeric exteriority, oral-formulaic theory, and philological approaches to Homeric textuality. It argues that the field of access does not reject Auerbach, replace Parry-Lord, or supersede philology, but asks a narrower analytic question: how mediated forms make presence available without grounding that presence in sovereign interiority or a single stable source.
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Sandra Voss (2026) studied this question.