What is Authorial Philology?
OBP collectionÉditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 8 juin 2021
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
Nombre de pages : xxii-189
Présentation
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.
Sommaire
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
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