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

1. What is a text? Document vs edition;

2. Analogic vs Digital text;

3. Manuscripts and Books – Video resources: how to make a manuscripe and a book;

4. Inside: Manuscripts, document, books – Visit to BUB;

5. Copy, Error, Tradition;

6. Single source edition: Diplomatic;

7. Single source edition: Critic;

8. More than one source edition: Lachmann vs Bédier;

9. More than one source edition: Text / Apparatus;

10. Analogic vs Digital Editions;

11. Inside: the work flow from analogic to digital – Visit to ADLAB

12. Scholarly digital Editions: theory & models;

13. Scholarly digital editions: catalogue and choice;

14. Case studies – SEDT Guest Lecture

15. Scholarly Digital Editions: evaluation (RIDE Guideline)

Readings/Bibliography

                                             SYLLABUS

Attending students:

1. 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 Theories, pp. 1-137)

2. A Vademecum to Scholarly Editions (selected concepts from PLS [https://www.sglp.uzh.ch/static/MLS/stemmatology/index.html]

3. Work and Document, ed. by Bárbara Bordalejo, “Ecdotica”, n. 10 (2013), pp. 7-76 [https://site.unibo.it/ecdotica/it/numeri-della-rivista/ecdotica-10-2013]

4. Beatrice Nava, Are we all Bédierian. Perspectives for Digital Genetic Editions?, “Umanistica Digitale”, n. 14 (2022) [https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/14949]

For non-attending students, the Syllabus also includes the study of the second part of Pierazzo-Driscoll's volume, pp. 137-237 and P. Italia-G. Raboni, What is authorial philology, Open Book Publisher, Cambridge, 2021 [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0224]

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

The exam is made up of three parts (each part counts as 1/3 of the vote):

1.A WRITTEN EXAM (/30) (on EOL) of multiple choice (part A 15 questions of 2 points each) and open questions (part B 1 open question of maximum 30 points) on the topics covered in the course. Successful students will pass to part 2 by getting 18 out of 30 in part 1. Final Grade Part 1: Part A + Part B rounded up (ex.: 27,5 > 28)

2.A DSE REVIEW (/30) (maximum 20.000 bytes Bibliography included), in which students will review a chosen DSE following RIDE guidelines; the paper must be sent at least ten days before the Exam [mailto:paola.italia@unibo.it].

3.AN ORAL EXAM (/30) in which students will discuss the DSE review, they will show that they know the topics covered during the course and have studied the compulsory bibliography.

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                                        ASSESSMENT

• Outstanding  30 e 30L

Possessing a perfectly clear understanding of all course topics, having explored the topics in depth and using consistently correct linguistic terminology, both in written and oral expression, will be assessed with an Outstanding grade.

• Very Satisfactory 27-29

Possessing a clear understanding of all course topics, having explored all the topics and using correct linguistic terminology, in written and/or oral expression, will be assessed with a Very Satisfactory grade.

• Satisfactory 24-26

Mnemonic knowledge of all the course topics or not completely appropriate terminology, in written and/or oral expression, will be valued with Satisfactory grade.

• Fairly Satisfactory 18-23

Mnemonic knowledge of some of the course topics or not appropriate terminology, in written and/or oral expression, will be valued with Fairly Satisfactory grade.

• Did not Meet Expectations  < 18

Poor or absent knowledge of the course topics and poor or incorrect use of language in both written and oral expression will be assessed as not sufficient.

                                              FINAL GRADE

1. Written Exam + 2. DSA Review + 3. Oral Exam = added up and rounded up (ex.: 27,5 > 28)

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