98870 - Scholarly Editing and Digital Textuality (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with an overview of the main concepts and ideas of textual criticism applied to literary texts, focusing on their linguistic status, their transmission, and their manuscript and print tradition,in relationship with Digital Textuality. The particular pitch of the module, aimed to beginners, will inspire students with basic or limited knowledge of literary history, linguistics and textual criticism to engage with a new and innovative approach to literary texts. Through the analysis of different Digital Scholarly Editions (DSE), by the end of the course the students will be able to recognize the critical paradigm in a DSE and to compare the different theoretical and methodological frameworks for its realization, according to national and international standards, in order to project their own SDE.

Course contents

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with an overview of the main concepts and ideas of textual criticism applied to literary texts, focusing on their linguistic status, their transmission, and their manuscript and print tradition. The particular pitch of the module, aimed to beginners, will inspire students with basic or limited knowledge of literary history, linguistics and textual criticism to engage with a new and innovative approach to literary texts. Through a series of lectures alternated with exercises, and innovative experiential teaching in direct contact with texts (visit to Bologna University Library, and ADLab), by the end of the course students will know the basics of textual criticism, analogue and digital, text marking, and will be able to produce - working in small groups - a small sample of a digital edition to present to the class and then send in at least ten days before the exam date.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION TO TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP AND WELCOME TEXT: MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, WITNESSES; 2. BOOKS (VISIT TO BUB); 3. COPY, ERROR, TRADITION; 4. SINGLE SOURCE EDITION: DIPLOMATIC/CRITICAL; 5. MORE THEN ONE SOURCE EDITION: LACHMANN VS BÉDIER; 6. TEXT, APPARATUS 7. ANALOGIC VS DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITIONS; MODELS AND CATALOGUES; 8. CASE STUDIES: NOVEL, POEMS, LETTERS (VISIT TO AD LAB); 9, 10, 11. MODELLING AND XML/TEI MARKING-UP; 12, 13, 14. PROJECT PRESENTATION; 15. BEYOND SDE: Philoeditor and VASTO; TRAINING TO FINAL EXAM (Mock-Exam).

Readings/Bibliography

READINGS/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compulsory Readings:

1. Pierazzo-Driscoll 2016 Digital Scholarly Editing. Theories and practices, Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo (eds.), OpenBookPublisher, 2016 ( [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/483#page/1/mode/2up)] (only part 1: Theories, pp. 1-137)

2. A Vademecum to Scholarly Editions (selected concepts from https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/stemmatology available in VIRTUALE)

TWO papers among the followings (only one in Italian):

Bartalesi et.al. DanteSources: a Digital Library for Studying Dante Alighieri’s Primary Source, “Umanistica digitale”, n. 1 (2017) https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/7250

Bonsi-Di Iorio-Italia-Vitali 2015 Claudia Bonsi, Angelo Di Iorio, Paola Italia, Fabio Vitali, Manzoni's electronic interpretations, in The Mechanic Reader. Digital methods for literary criticism, in “Semicerchio”, LIII (2015/2), pp. 91-99.

Bordalejo 2014 Work and Document, a cura di Bárbara Bordalejo, “Ecdotica”, n. 10 (2014), pp. 7-76 [Bárbara Bordalejo, Introduzione 7; Peter Robinson, The Concept of the Work in the Digital Age 13 Hans Walter Gabler, Editing Text – Editing Work 42 PaulEggert, What We Edit, and how We Edit; or, why not to Ring-Fence the Text; 50 Bárbara Bordalejo, The Texts We See and the Works We Imagine: The Shift of Focus of Textual Scholarship in the Digital Age 64; Peter Shillingsburg, Literary Documents, Texts, and Works Represented Digitally 76].

Brancato Corbellini Italia Pasqual Priore 2021, [https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/2021/1/vasto-unedizione-digitale-interdisciplinare/], Macazèn, vol. 2, n. 1 (giugno 2021).

[https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/2021/1/vasto-unedizione-digitale-interdisciplinare/]

Christen-Spadini 2019 Alessio Christen, Elena Spadini, Modeling genetic networks. Gustave Roud's œuvre, from diary to poetry collections, “Umanistica Digitale”, n. 7 (2019) https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/9063

Di Iorio-Italia-Vitali 2015 Angelo Di Iorio, Paola Italia, Fabio Vitali, Variants and Versioning between Textual Bibliography and Computer Science, in Francesca Tomasi, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, and Anna Maria Tammaro. Eds. Humanities and Their Methods in the Digital Ecosystem. Proceedings of Third AIUCD Annual Conference (AIUCD2014). Selected papers. ACM, New York, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4503-3295-8.

Eggert 2012 Paul Eggert, Anglo-American Critical Editing. Concepts, terms, methodologies, “Ecdotica”, n. 9 (2012), pp. 113-124.

Fischer 2017 Digital corpora and Scholarly Editions of Latin Texts: Features and Requirements of Textual Criticism, “Speculum”, n. 92, s/1 (October 2017), pp. 1-23.

Giuffrida-Italia-Nieddu-Schmidt 2020 Milena Giuffrida, Paola Italia, Simone NIeddu, Desmond Schmidt, From print to digital: A web edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s Idilli, “Digital Scholarship in the Humanities”, maggio 2020 (https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/llc/fqaa022/5828480 ).

Greetham-Zaccarello 2014 David Greetham, Michelangelo Zaccarello, La repubblica delle lettere di Jerome McGann, D.G., The end(s) of reading from Nietzsche to McGann (p. 7); M.Z., Il posto dell’edizione critica nella «nuova repubblica delle lettere» di Jerome McGann, “Ecdotica”, n. 11 (2014), pp. 7-25.

Italia-Bonsi 2015 Bonsi-Italia, ECD/DCE. Edizioni a confronto/Comparing Editions, a cura di Paola Italia e Claudia Bonsi, Sapienza University Press, 2015 (http://www.editricesapienza.it/sites/default/files/Italia_Bonsi_EdizioniCriticheDigitali.pdf)

(one paper among PARTE I, 1-9 chapters)

Italia-Tomasi 2014 Paola Italia e Francesca Tomasi, Filologia digitale. Fra teoria, metodologia e tecnica, in “Ecdotica”, 11 (2014), pp. 112-131.

Italia 2016a Paola Italia, Il lettore Google, in PEML, a. I, n. 1 (2016), pp. 1-12.

Italia 2016b Paola Italia, Editing 2.0. Quali testi leggiamo e leggeremo in rete?, in «Nuovi Argomenti», gennaio-marzo 2016, n. 73, pp. 80-86.

Longo 2018 Luciano Longo, Dai testi cartacei ai testi virtuali: potenzialità dell’ecdotica digitale, “Umanistica Digitale”, n. 3 (2018) https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/8146Monella 2018 Paolo Monella, Livelli di rappresentazione del testo nell’edizione del De nomine di Orso Beneventano, “Umanistica digitale”, n. 2 (2018) https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/7286

Pierazzo-Leclerc 2015 Elena Pierazzo e Elise Leclerc, L’edizione scientifica al tempo dell’editoria digitale, “Ecdotica”, n. 12, (2015), pp. 180-193.

Pierazzo-Mancinelli 2019, Elena Pierazzo, Tiziana Mancinelli, Che cosa è l’edizione scientifica digitale, Roma, Carocci, 2019.

Rosselli Del Turco et al. 2019 Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Chiara Di Pietro, Chiara Martignano, Progettazione e implementazione di nuove funzionalità per EVT 2: lo stato attuale dello sviluppo, “Umanistica Digitale”, n. 7 (2019) https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/9322Spadini 2019 Elena Spadini, Exercises in modelling: textual variants, [https://link.springer.com/journal/42803] volume 1, pages289–307(2019), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42803-019-00023-7

Tomasi 2012 Francesca Tomasi, L’edizione digitale e la rappresentazione della conoscenza, “Ecdotica”, n. 9 (2012), pp. 113-124.

Zaccarello (ed.) 2019, Teoria e forme del testo digitale, a cura di Michelangelo Zaccarello, Postfazione di H. Wayne Storey, 2019 (one essay amongs the followings: McGann, Hockey, Eggert, Shillingsburg, Kirschenbaum, Borghi-Karapapa, Robinson, Kichuk, Conway.

Teaching methods

TEACHING METHODS

Face-to-face classes and laboratory/workshop sessions of 15 lessons (30 hours). During the first lesson students will be given a Welcome Text, to text the class level. We will use EOL, Mentimeter Exercises, Php and audio materials available on VIRTUALE and video lessons taken from the ERC DIXIT Project [https://teach.dariah.eu].

Assessment methods

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam is made up of:

1. A WRITTEN EXAM (on EOL) of multiple choice (part 1) and open (part 2) questions on the topics covered in the theoretical part of the course. Successful students will pass to part 2 by answering 18 out of 30 questions (part 1).

2. A PROJECT ON A DSE, in which students will present (alone or in small groups) the model of a digital edition; the project must be sent at least ten days before the Exam (paola.italia@unibo.it).

3. AN ORAL EXAM in which students will discuss their project and will show that they know the topics covered during the course and have studied the compulsory bibliography.

The final grade of the written exam will be averaged with the grade of the Project and the oral exam.

Reaching a clear view of all the course topics, and go deep into the essay chosen topic, as well as using a correct language terminology will be valued with maximum rankings. Mnemonic knowledge of the course topics or not completely appropriate terminology will be valued with intermediate rankings. Unknown topics or inappropriate terminology use will be valued, depending on the seriousness of the omissions, with minimal or insufficient rankings.

Teaching tools

TEACHING TOOLS

TEAMS Digital platform, Stream Video and audio recording of the lessons, Php and didactic materials available on VIRTUALE and innovative Digital Scholarly Training video lessons taken from the ERC DIXIT Project https://teach.dariah.eu; Mentimeter Exercises; EOL / Zoom Exam.

OFFICE HOURS See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia