EARLY MODERN LITERATURE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

This course to be chosen by the student is part of the Master's Degree Programme in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature. Born within the curriculum of French Studies (and Double Diploma Master européen en études françaises et francophones), this course is open to all the interested students of the Master's Degree in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature..
It will be held in French by a Visiting Professor in charge of digital library projects and critical edition of literary texts of the sixteenth century.

Basic knowledge of the main tools (paper and digital) for bibliographic research, basic notions of book and edition history, notions of database, digital library, digital edition.
Basic knowledge of the methodologies of the digital edition.
Development, implementation and use of a publication platform.
Conduct of research (literary analysis) on a publication platform.

A good knowledge of French is required.

The course is part of a general reflection on the contributions of digital to literary studies applied to a literary corpus of the First Modernity and will offer some theoretical, methodological and practical tools for the publication and enhancement of this corpus.
How can literary works produced in the 16th and 17th centuries be made easily accessible to a wide contemporary public, whose consultation in library collections is limited to specialists? How can we restore the literary, socio-historical and cultural issues that require, in order to be intelligible, studies on authors, genres, texts, editions, illustrations, forms of communication of the works to their first readers?
The course aims to question the specificities of early modern literary writings (publication in collection, anonymity, variability, rewriting, re-edition, reconfiguration) and the way in which digital technologies renew the way they are published and transmitted to today's readers.
To this end, the semester will be dedicated to the collective production, in the form of a prototype, of the critical digital edition of a part of a collection of early modern texts preserved in a Venetian library.
The course will offer the opportunity to reflect on the digital mediation of literary texts and on the redefinition of the work through its online publication, enriched with notes, literary analysis, any archival documents and iconographic materials that can be included with the students in the mini-site created in the course.
The progression of the work will associate at each stage theoretical training, methodological reflection and practical application, through the active participation of the students.

Indications will be given at the beginning of the semester.

Practical work, lectures, final examination interview.

Lessons, seminars, guided research activities, also in the library, practical activities in the computer lab.

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