IJIIB910 Textual criticism I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kateřina Garajová, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 20. 10. to Fri 18. 12. Wed 15:50–17:25 G02, Mon 21. 9. to Tue 13. 10. Tue 10:50–12:25 C31
Prerequisites (in Czech)
IJIA028 Bachelor's exam
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims at providing a knowledge of the main topics of the subject (textual criticism and history of the transmission, the medieval book, how to prepare a critical edition, how to read a manuscript, sources and indirect transmission).
Syllabus
  • The course include: an introduction to the methods and instruments of Italian philology (textual criticism); practical exercise in reading Medieval manuscripts. Since the course is quite technical, you are strongly reccomanded to attend lectures. In case you don't, instead of reading manuscripts you will have to read one day (any) of the Decameron (both short-stories and the frame).
Literature
    required literature
  • Pasquale Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2008
  • Cesare Segre, Appunti sul problema delle contaminazioni nei testi in prosa, in Studi e problemi di critica testuale. Convegno di Studi di filologia italiana, Bologna, 1961.
  • Alfredo Stussi, Nuovo avviamento agli studi di filologia italiana, Bologna, Il mulino, 1988
  • Alfonso D'Agostino, Trasmissione anomala e contaminazione, Università degli studi di Milano, dispense di filologia italiana per l'a.a. 2005-06, disponibili su http://armida.unimi.it/handle/2170/528
  • Paolo Divizia, Appunti di stemmatica comparata, «Studi e Problemi di Critica Testuale», LXXVIII (2009), pp. 29-48
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo. Il Tresor di Brunetto Latini tra fonti e volgarizzamenti: il caso della Formula vitae honestae (Brunetto Latini's Tresor between sources and translations: the case of the Formula vitae honestae). In Benozzo, Francesco; Brunetti, Giuseppina; Caraffi, Patrizia; Fassò, Andrea; Formisano, Luciano; Giannini, Gabriele; Mancini, Mario. Culture, livelli di cultura e ambienti nel Medioevo occidentale : atti del IX Convegno della Società Italiana di Filologia Romanza (Bologna, 5-8 ottobre 2009). Roma: Aracne, 2012, p. 357-371. ISBN 978-88-548-4931-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4399/978885484931018. URL info
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo. Fenomenologia degli 'errori guida' (A phenomenology of 'significant errors' in textual criticism). Filologia e critica. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2011, roč. XXXVI, č. 1, p. 49-74. ISSN 0391-2493. URL info
Teaching methods
Lecture: description of the scientific discipline and its method, explanation and definition of basic notions and their demonstration on concrete texts by concrete authors. Seminar: Application of the acquired theoretical knowledge on authentic texts. In the form of a presentation the students show their capability to connect their theoretical knowledge while working with a concrete text.
Assessment methods
Analysis of a text in a seminar essay and a test.
Language of instruction
Italian
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/auth/www/204706/index.html
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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