METHODS AND PRACTICES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM
- Academic year
- 2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- METODI E PRASSI DELLA CRITICA DEL TESTO
- Course code
- LT8000 (AF:356629 AR:253664)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-FIL-LET/09
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Course year
- 3
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The course aims to make students understand the problems of transmitting a text over the centuries and the importance of the critical edition of the text.
Expected learning outcomes
1. To know and understand the issues related to the transmission of literary texts in the medieval and modern Romance-speaking territories; to know and understand both the philological procedures and the theorizations about how to make a critical edition.
2. To be able to identify the issues related to the transmission of texts and the philolgical procedures that are needed to restore the text in the closest form as possible to the original; to acquire awareness of the linguistic, stylistic, historical and cultural, palaeographic and codicological knowledge that is required to make a critical edition.
3. To be able to identify - by comparing manuscript witnesses, or print witnesses, with modern editions of the text - the procedure followed by editors as well as to judge, by way of the analysis of the critical discussion, the different degrees of appropriateness of the choices the editors made to restore the text.
4. To be able to talk in a clear and technically adequate way about the contents of the course, using a style that suits the communicative context.
5. Learning Capabilities. To be able to propose the course contents in an organic way and to critically consult the reference texts.
2. To be able to identify the issues related to the transmission of texts and the philolgical procedures that are needed to restore the text in the closest form as possible to the original; to acquire awareness of the linguistic, stylistic, historical and cultural, palaeographic and codicological knowledge that is required to make a critical edition.
3. To be able to identify - by comparing manuscript witnesses, or print witnesses, with modern editions of the text - the procedure followed by editors as well as to judge, by way of the analysis of the critical discussion, the different degrees of appropriateness of the choices the editors made to restore the text.
4. To be able to talk in a clear and technically adequate way about the contents of the course, using a style that suits the communicative context.
5. Learning Capabilities. To be able to propose the course contents in an organic way and to critically consult the reference texts.
Pre-requirements
No prerequisites are required
Contents
Introduction to text criticism with practical examples of editions of Romance texts both in single and multiple tradition.
Referral texts
L. Leonardi, "Filologia romanza. 1. Critica del testo, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2022
Students who cannot complete the examination programme in the classroom will contact the lecturer.
Students who cannot complete the examination programme in the classroom will contact the lecturer.
Assessment methods
The student will be asked questions about the methodical and practical problems of philology aimed at critical edition of the text, both in general and through the pointed examples addressed in class.
Teaching methods
Frontal classroom lesson: students will be provided with the texts being analysed in each lesson
Teaching language
Italian
Type of exam
oral
This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 15/03/2023