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 e...

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.