What is Authorial Philology?
A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides readers with an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of editing ‘authorial texts’ alongside an exploration of authorial philology in its cultural and conceptual architecture. The originality and distinction of this work lies in its clear systematization of a discipline whose autonomous status has only r...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 8 juin 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-7038-4
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-80064-023-8
Nombre de pages : xxii-189
Paola Italia et Giulia Raboni
PrefacePaola Italia et Giulia Raboni
Introduction to the English TranslationPaola Italia et Giulia Raboni
AcknowledgmentsPaola Italia et Giulia Raboni
IntroductionPaola Italia et Giulia Raboni
1. HistoryPaola Italia
2. MethodsPaola Italia et Giulia Raboni
3. Italian ExamplesMarco Presotto, Sònia Boadas, Margherita Centenari et al.
4. European Examples
A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides readers with an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of editing ‘authorial texts’ alongside an exploration of authorial philology in its cultural and conceptual architecture. The originality and distinction of this work lies in its clear systematization of a discipline whose autonomous status has only recently been recognised.
This pioneering volume offers both a methodical set of instructions on how to read critical editions, and a wide range of practical examples, expanding upon the conceptual and methodological apparatus laid out in the first two chapters. By presenting a thorough account of the historical and theoretical framework through which authorial philology developed, Paola Italia, Giulia Raboni and their co-authors successfully reconceptualize the authorial text as an ever-changing organism, subject to alteration and modification.
What is Authorial Philology? will be of great didactic value to students and researchers alike, providing readers with a fuller understanding of the rationale behind different editing practices, and addressing both traditional and newer methods such as the use of the digital medium and its implications. Spanning the whole Italian tradition from Petrarch to Carlo Emilio Gadda, and with examples from key works of European literature, this ground-breaking volume provokes us to consider important questions concerning a text’s dynamism, the extent to which an author is ‘agentive’, and, most crucially, about the very nature of what we read.
Giulia Raboni teaches Italian philology at the University of Parma. Her work focuses on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature (Teofilo Folengo, Le Tasse, Giovan Battista Marino, Gabriello Chiabrera) as well as on contemporary literature (in particular on the work of Vittorio Sereni). She has edited, under the direction of Dante Isella and with the collaboration of Paola Italia and Barbara Colli, Fermo e Lucia and the ‘Second Manuscript’ of the Fiancés. Alongside these critical editing works, Giulia Raboni has published numerous essays and, most recently, the book Come lavorava Manzoni (Rome, Carocci, 2017).
Paola Italia is an associate professor at the University of Bologna. Her work focuses on authorial philology (www.filologiadautore.it), whose methodological issues she has explored (Che cos’è la filologia d’autore, with Giulia Raboni, 2010) and which she has applied to the study of Italian literary archives (eighteenth-twentieth centuries). She has collaborated on critical editions of Manzoni’s Fermo and Lucia and Leopardi’s Canti, and she has dedicated her research to many twentieth-century authors (Gadda, Savinio, Manganelli, Sinigaglia, Bassani, Tobino...), of whom she has edited several books, and whose writing method she has studied (among her latest works: Come lavorava Gadda, 2017).
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