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.
ISBN Hardback: 9781800640245
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781800640252
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781800640269
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781800640276
Contents
Preface
Introduction to the English Translation
Acknowledgments
Introduction Download
Paola Italia and Giulia Raboni
1. History Download
Paola Italia and Giulia Raboni
2. Methods Download
Paola Italia
3. Italian Examples Download
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4. European Examples
4.1 Lope de Vega’s La Dama Boba Download
Marco Presotto and Sònia Boadas
4.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poems Download
Margherita Centenari
4.3 Jane Austen’s The Watsons Download
Francesco Feriozzi
4.4 Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu Download
Carmela Marranchino
4.5 Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot Download
Olga Beloborodova, Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst
References
Glossary
List of Illustrations
