Textual Criticism - 2nd semester
Code
722091138
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Luiz Fagundes Duarte
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To collect the knowledge acquired by the students at graduation level and guide them to the awareness of text editorial dimensions, as well as the critical confrontation they represent.
b) To present and practice the editing models established by textual theories of both traditional and modern philology.
c) To analyze the ways of a text preparation related with the ways of reading, considering the specific text characteristics and its precise editorial context.
d) To establish close links between critical theory and modern editing activity
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Initial definitions: text, author, editor, reader, literary relationship. Edition as a communication device.
2- A brief history of textual criticism. Before Gutenberg: the lost original; copies and supports. After Gutenberg: the multiple original.
3- Critical concepts: variant, version, text-based and ultimate intentions, writing campaign, testimony, preliminary text. Additional knowledge: paleography, codicology, material bibliography and manuscritptology.
4- Critical edition methods: history of the text, critical review, collation, stemmatics, establishing a critical text, transcription, emendation, annotation. The importance of the philological comment..
5 Different types of edition: from facsimile edition to critical edition. The editor as an interpreter: the typical modes of authorial writing and the collaboration author-editor.
6- The hypertext and the virtual files: examples of electronic edition. The digitextuality.
Bibliography
MAAS, Paul (1958). Textual Criticism: Oxford University Press.
MCGANN, Jerome J. (1983). A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism.
GREETHAM, D. C. (1994). Textual Scholarship. An Introduction, Nova Iorque, Garland.
LOISEAUX, Elisabeth Bergmann; FRAISTAT, Neil (2002). Reimagining Textuality. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press.
SHILLINGSBURG, Peter L. (2006). From Gutenberg to Google. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
DUARTE, Luiz Fagundes Duarte (2007) (Org.). Veredas [Crítica Textual]. Revista da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, 8. Porto Alegre: Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas.
FURTADO, José Afonso (2007). O Papel e o Pixel, Lisboa, Ariadne.
CASTRO, Ivo (2013). Editar Pessoa. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda.
Teaching method
Theory-based lectures will be, since the initial explanation, systematically followed by practical examples, which will lead the students to the knowledge of the material factors of making a critical edition, as well as to the relevance of the possible criteria.
Evaluation method
Presentation of small works, including an editorial analysis of a book, and as a final work, a commented exercise of editing.