85449 - Scholarly Editing and Digital Approaches (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. 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 workshops on shared digital platforms, by the end of the course the students will be able to recognize a DSE (Digital Scholarly Edition), to compare the different theoretical and methodological frameworks for its realization according to national and international standards, and to design their own digital edition.

Course contents

1. Introduction to the course and to Textual scholarship and Welcome text

THEORY

2. Introduction to philology: Manuscripts, documents, witnesses;

3. Introduction to philology: Books [Fabio Massimo Bertolo’s Lecture on Luca Pacioli’s Summa, Venezia, 1494];

4. A vademecum to Scholarly Editing: Copy, Tradition, Trasmission; 5. A vademecum to Scholarly Editing: Text and Apparatus;

6. A vademecum to Scholarly Editing: Types of Editions (single source);

7-8. A vademecum to Scholarly Editing: Types of Editions (more than one source: critical edition, Lachmann’s method);

9. A vademecum to Scholarly Editing: Types of Editions (more than one source: Bedier’s method);

10. A vademecum to Scholarly Editing: Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE) Catalogues;

CASE STUDIES

11. DSE Case studies: Letters;

12. DSE Case studies: Poems;

13. DSE Case studies: Novels;

14. Beyond DSE: Calvino’s Digital Project;

15. Evaluating a Digital Scolarly Edition, Workshop on individual essays/projects and Conclusions.

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 http://iol.unibo.it.

 

TWO papers among the followings:

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.

Bonsi-Di Iorio-Italia-Vitali 2015 C. Bonsi, A. Di Iorio, P. Italia, F. 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].

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

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 (a cura di Paola Italia le pp. 122-131).

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

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

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

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

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. After the first theoretical lessons, some case studies will be dealt, and students will choose a topic on which they will write a 20.000 bytes paper (see Assessment methods).

We will use digital platform, php and audio materials available on http://iol.unibo.it [http://iol.unibo.it/] and innovative Digital Scholarly Training video lessons taken from the ERC DIXIT Project https://teach.dariah.eu.

Assessment methods

The exam is made up of

1. a written text (maximum 20.000 bytes Bibliography included), in which students will deal with a project, a topic, a review, or an analysis of a scholarly digital edition to be planned with the student; the paper must be sent at least ten days before the Exam (paola.italia@unibo.it).

2. an oral exam in which students must show that they know the topics covered during the course and have studied the compulsory bibliography.

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

Digital platform, audio recording of the lessons, Php and didactic materials available on http://iol.unibo.it, and innovative Digital Scholarly Training video lessons taken from the ERC DIXIT Project https://teach.dariah.eu.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia