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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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Italia, Paola.
Other Authors: Raboni, Giulia.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the English Translation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A definition of authorial philology
  • The critical edition in authorial philology
  • (Authorial) philology and critics (of variants)
  • From Petrarch's Canzoniere to modern texts
  • History, methods, examples
  • One discipline, different skills
  • Digital editions and common representations
  • 1. History
  • 1.1 Author's variants from a historical perspective
  • 1.2 Methods throughout history: from Ubaldini to Moroncini
  • 1.3 Authorial philology and criticism of variants
  • 1.4 Authorial philology and critique génétique
  • 1.5 Dante Isella's authorial philology
  • 1.6 Authorial philology in the digital era
  • 1.7 Authorial philology in the latest decade
  • 2. Methods
  • 2.1 The text
  • 2.1.1 Edition of in fieri texts
  • 2.1.2 Editions of texts in multiple versions
  • 2.2 The apparatus
  • 2.2.1 Genetic and evolutionary apparatus
  • 2.2.2 Vertical and horizontal apparatus
  • 2.3 Variants
  • 2.3.1 Immediate and late variants
  • 2.3.2 Horizontal apparatus: Explicit or symbolic
  • 2.3.3 Photographic apparatus and diachronic apparatus
  • 2.3.4 Horizontal apparatus: progressive or derivative
  • 2.4 Marginalia and alternative variants
  • 2.4.1 The apparatus
  • 2.4.2 Marginalia (metatextual notes)
  • 2.4.3 The alternative variants
  • 2.5 Diacritic signs and abbreviations
  • 2.6 How to prepare a critical edition
  • 3. Italian Examples
  • 3.1 Petrarch: The Codice degli abbozzi
  • 3.2 Pietro Bembo: The Prose della volgar lingua
  • 3.3 Tasso: The Rime d'amore
  • 3.4 Alessandro Manzoni: Fermo e Lucia and the seconda minuta
  • 3.5 Giacomo Leopardi's Canti
  • 3.6. Carlo Emilio Gadda's work
  • 4. European Examples
  • 4.1 Lope de Vega's La Dama Boba
  • 4.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley's Poems
  • 4.3 Jane Austen's The Watsons.
  • 4.4 Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
  • 4.5 Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot
  • References
  • Glossary
  • List of Illustrations
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4.

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