87699 - Literature and Philology of modern and contemporary (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, successful students know Literature and Philology of modern and contemporary Italian texts, through the reading and analysis of exemplary case studies.

Course contents

The course aims to prepare the master student, who has already taken the institutional exams of Italian Literature, Contemporary Italian Literature and has basic notions of Italian Philology, for a deep study of the modern manuscript ('700-'900). After an general introduction to Authorial philology (www.filologiadautore.it), dedicated to illustrating the branch of philology dealing with author's variants, case studies from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (Alfieri, Leopardi, Manzoni, Montale, Gadda, Bassani), methods and techniques of reading, transcription and representation of the modern manuscript, both in prose and poetry, will be presented through case studies from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (Alfieri, Leopardi, Manzoni, Montale, Gadda, Bassani), addressing all the elements of the critical edition: text, apparatus, alternative variants, genetic variants, phases, notes. A large part of the course will be devoted to modern techniques of reproduction and digital edition and their impact on the interpretation and study of the autograph and its variants (compositional stratigraphy, diachronic representation, series of correction) and on the constitution of the text. At the end of the course the student will carry out an exercise consisting in the transcription and edition of a modern manuscript, taken from one of the case studies analyzed during the course.

CONTENT: 1. Introduction: The modern manuscript; 2-3: How to read; 4. How to transcribe: the text; 5. How to transcribe: the error; 6. How to transcribe: the correction; 7. How to represent: the apparatus; 8. How to represent: the alternative variants; 9. How to represent: the genetic variants; 10. How to represent: the correction phases; 11. How to represent: the bifurcations; 12. How to represent: the apostille; 13. How is it published: the paper critical edition; 14. How is it published: the digital critical edition; 15. Manuscripts and new technologies.

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

COMPULSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY 

P. Italia-Giulia Raboni, Che cos'è la filologia d'autore, Roma, Carocci, 2016 (V ed.).

P. Italia, Editing Novecento, Roma, Salerno, 2013, capp. 1 e 2 (pp. 13-137).

P. Italia, Il testimone anfibio. Il dattiloscritto tra tradizione manoscritta e tradizione a stampa, in “La tradizione dei Testi, Atti del Convegno, Cortona, 21-23 settembre 2017, a cura di Claudio Ciociola e Claudio Vela, Firenze, SFLI, 2018, pp. 253-74.

M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma Carocci, 2019, cap. V (Il manoscritto nel Terzo Millennio), pp. 107-123 (PDF in VIRTUALE)

 

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Maniaci, Terminologia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Istituto Centrale per la Patologia del Libro - Milano, Ed. Bibliografica, 1996 (2a ed.: 1998) disponibile anche in rete all'indirizzo: http://vocabulaire.irht.cnrs.fr/

Norme per i collaboratori dei Manoscritti datati d'Italia. Seconda edizione rivista ed ampliata, a cura di T. De Robertis, N. Giovè Marchioli, R. Miriello, M. Palma, S. Zamponi, Firenze, 2007.

 

Students who have never attended a Philology course should prepare the following chapters of Pasquale Stoppelli's handbook, Philology of Italian Literature, new edition, Rome, Carocci, 2019, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5.

AUTHORIAL VARIANTS EXAMPLES:

V. Alfieri, Vita scritta da esso, manoscritto Laurenziano Alfieri 241/2, a cura di Clemente Mazzotta e Gino Tellini, Firenze, Polistampa, 2003, voll. 3.

G. Leopardi, Canti e Poesie disperse, edizione critica diretta da Franco Gavazzeni, a cura di Cristiano Animosi, Paola Italia, Maddalena Lombardi, Rossano Pestarino, Sara Rosini, Edizioni dell'Accademia della Crusca, Firenze, 2009² (con DVD).

A. Manzoni, Fermo e Lucia, edizione critica diretta da Dante Isella, a cura di Barbara Colli, Paola Italia, Giulia Raboni, Edizione Nazionale ed Europea delle Opere di A. Manzoni, Milano, Casa del Manzoni, 2006.

C. E. Gadda, Eros e Priapo, edizione critica secondo l'autografo del 1944-46, a cura di Paola Italia e Giorgio Pinotti, Milano, Adelphi, 2013 (in preparazione e consultabile on line sulla piattaforma WIKI www.filologiadautore.it/wiki) .

G. Bassani, Una notte del ’43, a cura di A. Siciliano, edizione e studio critico della versione “originale”, parte I, in «Studi di Filologia Italiana», LXXVI [2018], pp. 351-398 e parte II, in «Studi di Filologia Italiana», LXXVII [2019], pp. 347-390 e Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (IOL)

Teaching methods

Face-to-face classes lessons, php, Php, all lessons will be recorded and uploaded in IOL.

Assessment methods

At the end of the course the student will have to write a thesis consisting of a critical edition of a manuscript text of his/her choice among those proposed in class, to be sent at least 15 days before the date on which he/she wants to take the exam. The exam will consist of an oral discussion of the thesis and the topics covered during the course. The final grade will be the average between the grade obtained in the thesis and that of the oral exam (in the case of an intermediate grade, the approximation will be by excess; e.g.: 26.5 > 27).

Reaching a clear view of all the course topics 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

PhP projection; sharing in TEAMS, IOL digital platform, lesson video-recording in STREAM.

Links to further information

http://www.filologiadautore.it/wp/

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia