20710473 - IN THE WORKSHOP OF THE TEXT EDITOR

Graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation obtain advanced knowledge and understanding in all the subject areas of their training in order to
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.

En el taller del editor de textos/ In the workshop of the text editor is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It aims at further consolidating linguistic-communicative skills (advanced level) and methodological, historical-linguistic, and analytic competences as applied to Spanish literary texts, with a special focus on Siglo de Oro (1550-1650) theatre. The module is thematically related to the unit “El teatro español entre dramaturgia y representación” and provides students with the required philological tools necessary to the creation of a critical edition: general overview, history of the textual transmission, determination of the critical edition, annotations, variants apparatus, etc. Through the unit, students will acquire both highly advanced autonomous critical competence and the skills involved in the realisation of a complex editorial product, which can be used for other chronological and cultural domains.
At the end of the module, students will be able to: prepare a critical edition of a text with philological-linguistic and historical-literary annotations thus applying theories and tools acquired during the unit; communicate module contents (advanced level).

Requirements: Students must have already taken La literatura española en el espejo del tiempo/ Spanish literature in the mirror of time.

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Programme

The course aims to familiarize students with the main problems faced by anyone wishing to create a critical edition of a golden theatrical text, and will have a markedly laboratorial character. The activities that will be carried out require the application of skills already acquired in the course of study (ability to use historical dictionaries and corpora, knowledge of the history of the language, literary knowledge, writing skills in Spanish) and encourage the acquisition of new skills (history of the ancient book, ecdotics, metrics).

Core Documentation

TEXTS
Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna, a cura di M. G. Profeti, in Il teatro dei Secoli d’oro, coord. M. G. Profeti, Milano, Bompiani, 2014, vol. I (.pdf messo a disposizione dalla docente);
Lope de Vega, Peribáñez y el comendador de Ocaña, a cura di F. Antonucci, Milano, Rizzoli, BUR;
Lope de Vega, El mejor alcalde, el Rey, ed. digitale a cura di T. Ferrer Valls (https://tc12.uv.es/canon60/C6050_ElMejorAlcaldeElRey.php).

CRITICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES
As to the points 1) e 2) of the syllabus:
• Blecua, Manual de crítica textual, Madrid, Castalia;
• M. G. Profeti, “Tradición impresa y voluntad del autor: el problema del teatro áureo”, en: Filologia dei testi a stampa: area iberica (Actas del Simposio, Pescara, 20-22 de noviembre de 2003), ed. Patrizia Botta, Modena, Mucchi Editore, 2005, pp. 57-72 (.pdf messo a disposizione dalla docente);
• F. Rico, El texto del Quijote (cap. I, “Cómo se hacía un libro en el Siglo de Oro”, pp. 53-93).

As to the point 3) of the syllabus:
• A. Sánchez Jiménez, Lope: el verso y la vida, Madrid, Cátedra;
• N. Salomon, “Los villanos de Fuente Ovejuna”, estudio preliminar a: Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna, ed. Donald McGrady, Barcelona, Crítica, pp. IX-XXXIII (reperibile in Biblioteca Petrocchi);
• F. Antonucci, “Introduzione” all’edizione di Peribáñez inclusa fra i testi in programma;
• N. Roig Fisas y B. Morros, “Prólogo” a: Lope de Vega, El mejor alcalde, el Rey, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1989, pp. 9-70 (.pdf messo a disposizione dalla docente).

Type of delivery of the course

1) The textual transmission of the golden age plays: characteristics and problems. Frontal classes. 2) Problems of editing a golden age theatrical text: the case of The best mayor, the King. Classroom work with online materials provided by the teacher. 3) Seminar on the dramas of the peasant honor by Lope de Vega, with the active participation of the students.

Attendance

We strongly advise against taking the exam as a non-attending student; in any case, the non-attending student must contact the teacher AT LEAST three months before the scheduled exam date and must prepare papers that will be assigned during the reception hours.

Type of evaluation

For attending students, the evaluation will be determined for 70% by the result of the work done in the classroom and the exercises carried out during the course and for 30% by the result of the oral exam which will aim above all to verify the concepts referred to in point 1 and 3 of the syllabus and general knowledge of the life and works of Lope de Vega. Students must obtain the program texts BEFORE the start of the course. In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the procedures for carrying out student assessment will be implemented. In particular, it is possible that oral exams take place remotely, via audio-video conference with the use of Microsoft Teams software