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2021/2022

Textual Criticism

Code: 100589 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500248 Spanish Language and Literature OT 3 2
2500248 Spanish Language and Literature OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Ramón Valdés Gázquez
Email:
Ramon.Valdes.Gazquez@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Prerequisites

By obtaining the minimum of credits in basic training subjects, students have demonstrated to have acquired the basic competences and they will be able to express themselves orally and in writing. For this reason, any spelling and expression errors that may be committed will lead to a score decrease in the final grade.

Activities, practical sessions and papers submitted in the course must be original and under no circumstances will the total or partial plagiarism of third-party materials published on any medium be admitted. Any submission of non-original material without properly indicating its origin will automatically result in a failure rating (0).

It is also expected that students know the general rules of submission of an academic work. However, students could apply the specific rules that the teacher of the subject may indicate to them, if they deem it necessary.

Objectives and Contextualisation

The specific and formative objectives of the subject are:

1. Knowing the main historical phases and trends of the Textual Criticism.

2. Knowing and applying the method of the Textual Criticism and its main current orientations.

3. Distinguishing among the types of errors that occur in the transmission of texts.

4. Analyzing different textual transmission problems.

5. Applying methods and principles of textual criticism and current orientations in the resolution of textual problems and the setting of literary texts.

6. Knowing the needs and strategies of literary text annotation and clarification.

7. Knowing the specificity and the validity of the methods of working on texts from different periods.

Competences

    Spanish Language and Literature
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • The techniques and methods of the annotated text editing.
  • Use the techniques and methods of textual criticism, and its related disciplines.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Collate the various testimonies of a literary work and classify the different types of variants: Support, linguistic, errata, graphic.
  2. Constitute a stemma codicum from common mistakes, according to the neolachmaniano system.
  3. Describe the tools of typography.
  4. Digitally edit text.
  5. Solving problems autonomously.
  6. Use the tools and rhetorical and poetic procedures for establishing the emendatio.

Content

1. History of textual criticism until the twentieth century.

2. Author's philology, Genetic Criticism.

3. The digital edition of texts.

4. Main phases of textual criticism and the critical edition of a text.

5. Means of transmission of the text and specificity of problems and methods to deal with its edition.

6. Texts annotation. Diversity of annotation needs: genres, times, and levels of the reading audience. From the informative edition to the specialized one.

Warning. The syllabus will be approached on the basis of a rich presentation of selected cases based on the interest for the treatment of the different topics.

Methodology

The learning of this subject by the students is distributed as follows:

Directed activities. These activities are divided into master classes and seminars and classroom practices led by the faculty, in which theoretical explanation is combined with discussion of all types of cases and textual problems.

Supervised activities. These tutorials are programmed by the teacher, dedicated to correcting and commenting on problems at different levels of literary analysis.

Autonomous activities. These activities include both time devoted to individual study and production of reviews, papers and analytical comments, as well as the preparation of possible oral presentations.

Evaluation activities. The evaluation of the subject will be carried out through written tests and possibly oral presentations.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Master classes and seminars 40 1.6 1, 2, 3, 6
Type: Supervised      
Oral Presentation 9 0.36 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
Type: Autonomous      
Prepararation of a written paper on the Golden Age prose 39 1.56 1, 2, 5, 6
Preparation and elaboration of a test to solve textual problems 28 1.12 1, 2, 5, 6
Theoretical-practical test 28 1.12 1, 2, 3, 5, 6

Assessment

The evaluation of the subject will be carried out starting from the realization of a series of activities in which the following aspects will be evaluated:

  • The assimilation of theoretical contents;
  • ·The practical application of the contents;
  • Attendance and participation in class.

The following activities will be realized in order to evaluate students:

- three partial tests that will consist of:

(1) an oral OPTATIVE presentation that can be about the same topic as the final work (10%);

(2) a control of the assimilation of theoretical contents (25%; 20% in the case of realization of the oral presentation);

(3) a control of the practical application in text comments (25%; 20% in the case of realization of the oral presentation).

- and a final work (50%).

The professor of the subject will establish minimum requirements on the basis of which students will be able to pass the test.

To pass the subject all the evaluation activities must be done and delivered within the deadline. The minimum admission grade required to pass each of the tests, considering it on the average, must be equal to or greater than 4 points.

The student who does not perform any of the activities or tests will be considered "Not evaluated".

The student will be considered "not evaluable" if has submitted at lest 50% of the evaluable evidence. The preparation of an activity implies the students' will to be evaluated in the subject and, therefore, their presentation to the evaluation and corresponding call. 

Students may apply for re-evaluation only in the case they have suspended or having realized activities whose percentage does not exceed 25% of the total evaluation.

In no case may the final work in the re-evaluation be repeated.

The completion of spelling, expression, lexicon and syntax errors will have a penalty of 0.25 on the final grade of each activity.

In the event ofa student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.

In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Coursework about the theoretical approach or problem 50% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Review 25% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
Review 25% 2 0.08 1, 3, 5, 6

Bibliography

Anuario Lope de Vega, 20 (2014): Edición crítica y y edición digital.

Arellano, Ignacio (dir.), Crítica textual y anotación filológica en obras del Siglo de Oro, Castalia, Madrid, 1991.

Blecua, Alberto, Manual de crítica textual, Castalia, Madrid, 1983.

---, Estudios de crítica textual, Gredos, Barcelona, 2012.

Contini, Gianfranco, Breviario di ecdotica, Einaudi, Turín, 1990.

Gaskell, Philip, Nueva introducción a la bibliografía material, Ediciones Trea, Gijón, 1999.

Greetham, David C., Textual Scholarship. An Introduction, Garland, Nueva York, 1994.

Grésillon, Almuth, Élements de critique génétique: lire les manuscrits modernes, Presses Universitaires de France, París, 1994.

Martínez-Gil Víctor, L'edició de textos: història i mètode, Barcelona, EDIUOC / Pòrtic, 2012. Moll, Jaime, Problemas bibliográficos del libro del Siglo de Oro, Arco/libros, Madrid, 2011.

Montaner, Alberto, Prontuario de bibliografía. Pautas para la realización de descripciones, citas y repertorios, TREA Ediciones, Gijón, 1999.

Pérez Priego, Miguel Ángel, La edición de textos, Síntesis, Madrid, 2012. Reed. Historia del libro y edición de textos, UNED, Madrid, 2018.

Pierazzo, Elena, Digital Scholarly Editing. Theories, Models and Methods, Routledge, Farnham, Surrey, 2015.

Rico, Francisco (dir.), Imprenta y crítica textual en el Siglo de Oro, Fundación Santander Central Hispano-CECE, Valladolid, 2000.

Ruiz, Elisa, Manual de codicología, Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, Madrid, 1988. PRINCIPALES REVISTAS: Incipit (1981-), Critica del testo (1998-), Variants (2002-), Ecdotica (2005-).

 

Software

If any program is necessary it will be said in lessons.