What Is Authorial Philology?

• Author: Italia, Paola.
• TeilnehmendeR: Raboni, Giulia.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)

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 (at least in Italy), though its roots may extend back as far as Giorgio Pasquali.

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.