Paola Italia

Giulia Raboni

What is Authorial Philology?

Giancarlo Alfano

Emilio Russo

Franco Tomasi

Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari

Scrivere all'Università. Manuale pratico con esercizi e antologia di testi

Editing Novecento

Claudia Bonsi

Sono sempre più numerosi i progetti di Edizioni Critiche Digitali che permettono di studiare, per mezzo di sistemi open source, il processo di genesi ed evoluzione delle opere attraverso la rappresentazione e interpretazione delle varianti d’autore. Il Seminario Internazionale ECD/DCE Edizioni a confronto/Comparing editions – organizzato nell’ambito del Progetto multidisciplinare THESMA (Sapienza Ricerca 2014) – ha riunito i maggiori esperti in Italia e in Europa di DH per presentare alla comunità scientifica internazionale i principali modelli di edizioni critiche digitali realizzati sulle opere di grandi autori italiani ed europei, da Leopardi a Gadda, da Jane Austen a Proust, da Nietzsche a Pessoa. There is an increasing number of Digital Critical Editions which clarify, by means of open source systems, the genetic process and the evolution of literary works. This has been achieved by representing and interpreting the author’s variants. The International Conference ECD/DCE Edizioni a confronto/Comparing Editions – organised within multidiscipinar THESMA PROJECT (Sapienza Research 2014) – has shown to the scientific community the main models of digital critical editions, produced at national and international levels, on the works by important Italian and European writers, from Leopardi to Gadda, Jane Austen to Proust, Nietzsche to Pessoa.

Edizioni a confronto Comparing Editions

Edizioni Critiche Digitali Digital Critical Editions

Dirk Van Hulle

Sònia Boadas

Marco Presotto

Margherita Centenari

Francesco Feriozzi

Carmela Marranchino

Olga Beloborodova

 Pim Verhulst

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. 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 and Giulia Raboni 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, 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.

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