Methodology for the History and Edition of Literary Texts

1. Facilitate the historical-philological and bibliographic knowledge necessary for the edition and study of literature.
2. To train in the notions and techniques of the methodology of textual criticism.
3. Make known some of the problems that affect the transmission and editing of texts different from universal literature.
4. Delve into the different concepts of the bibliography: traditional, material, textual ..., in close connection with what has been developed in the subject “Material bibliography, codicology and history of the book”.
5. Instruct students in the knowledge and correct handling of critical issues.

Section 1. THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTS

PART 1

1. Literary texts: particularities in the history of their transmission
2. Typology of text editions. What is a critical edition and what is it for?
3. A brief history of the critical method: main trends and methodological contributions
4. Application of the methods to the different textual traditions
5. The philological annotation of texts

PART 2

6. The digital philological edition: definition, potentialities and criteria of evaluation
7. Transformation of the text in data, modelling of data and edition
8. Practice of transcription and edition in language XML/TEI
9. Challenges and solutions of the digital edition (recognition of handwritten writing, automatic textual annotation, transformations and publication)

Section 2. PRACTICAL APPLICATION TO LITERARY TEXTS

1. The critical edition of medieval literary texts
Unique tradition vs. tradition with various testimonies
Collatio (errors and variants), constitution of a stemma codicum, constitutio textus and dispositio.
Critical apparatus and philological annotation

2. The critical edition of dramatic literary texts of the Golden Age: textual criticism
Relation and Collatio (errors and variants). The problem of the authorships, of the titles and of the double versions. The stylometry
Construction of the stemma, constitutio and dispositio textus. Critical device and philological annotation

3. The edition and annotation of Hispanic literary texts contemporary (ff. XIX-XXI): genetic criticism. Archives and personal collections of documents

4. Guided practice: design of a digital edition project of one or more documents and/or texts selected by the students. Virtual research environments dedicated to editing. Markup languages and the vocabulary of the Text Encoding Initiative. The interface as part of the philological discourse

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Pierazzo, Elena: Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods. London ; New York: Routledge, 2015.
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BIBLIOGRAFÍA COMPLEMENTARIA

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• Correctly and rigorously apply specific technical terminology and theoretical notions.
• Know and use correctly the key concepts of textual criticism and textual bibliography.
• Know and correctly use key concepts of literary theory (Poetics, Rhetoric, Metrics, etc.).
• Know the main methodological currents of text editing.
• Acquire the ability to critically assess a literary text, being aware of the existence of conditions that affect its transmission and editing.
• Develop the ability to critically assess information related to the literary text.
• Evaluate literary texts from different periods, languages and authors.
• Develop the ability to argue a hypothesis or point of view.
• Learn to work in an interdisciplinary way.
• Recognize the principles that regulate a critical edition, understood as the essential starting point for any subsequent study (literary, linguistic, stylistic, historical, etc.).

Sessions will combine the theoretical exposition of the theoretical principles on critical editing with the practical work, which will make it possible to illustrate the concepts and notions exposed in the theoretical classes, promoting their correct assimilation by the students.
The learning of the theoretical contents will be supported in practice in the edition and annotation of specific texts. In addition, reading of selected works will be requested in order to complement the theoretical/practical perspective on any of the specific points of the program.
Attendance at classes is considered essential to fully and satisfactorily acquire the expected skills, as well as to allow the active participation of students, through debates and short presentations.
The non-face-to-face training activities will be based on the autonomous work of the students, which will allow an improvement in the acquisition and assimilation of content, and which may consist of a review of notes and the critical reading of recommended texts. In addition, students have to prepare an individual work (see Assessement system).

Students need actively participate in face-to-face sessions. The final evaluation will take into account the attendance and participation of each student during the sessions, as well as the degree of relevance and acuity of their observations and results (30%).
According to the memory of the Master in Literature and Culture Studies, the students who exceed 25% of absences will not be able to attend the ordinary call and will have to do so at the second opportunity.
The evaluation will be based mainly on the completion of an essay (70%), in the first opportunity and in the second.

In November, one of the face-to-face sessions will be devoted to the exhibition of posters. In that session, each student will present their progresses and difficulties in the process of realisation of their final essay.

ESSAY
It must combine the state of the question with personal observations. The guidelines will be indicated at the beginning of the course. It is advisable to avoid the abuse of long citations and the abusive succession of citations even if they are brief. It has to be an original work and elaborated exclusively for the evaluation of this course. Plagiarism is not allowed.

It is possible to choose between 3 modalities:
1) It will consist of the preparation of an annotated critical edition proposal, individually. It will be previously agreed.
2) It will consist of the preparation of a detailed review of a specific critical edition in printed format. It will be previously agreed.
2) It will consist of the preparation of a detailed review of a specific critical edition in digital format. It will be previously agreed.

Students with an official teaching dispensation must carry out a work of the modality 1 and another to choose between the modalities 2 and 3, previously agreeing each of them.

Deadline: see exams calendar.

In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of grades will apply.

PRESENTIAL ACTIVITY
Exhibition sessions: 6h
Seminar sessions: 24h
Scheduled tutoring sessions: 6h


NON-PRESENTIAL ACTIVITY
Exhibition content: 36h
Practical content: 36h
Evaluation (Essay): 30h

TOTAL: 150 HOURS.

It is convenient to actively participate in the sessions and do the recommended readings.

CONTENTS ARE DISTRIBUTED AS FOLLOWS:

1) Déborah González Martínez: 3 ECTS.

-Section 1. METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS, Part 1
-Section 2. PRACTICAL APPLICATION TO LITERARY TEXTS, topic 1

2) Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo: 1,5 ECTS.

-Section 2. PRACTICAL APPLICATION TO LITERARY TEXTS, topics 2 and 3

1) Victor Millet Schröeder: 1,5 créditos.

-Section 1. METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS, Part 2
-Section 2. PRACTICAL APPLICATION TO LITERARY TEXTS, topic 4