2024

Textual Criticism

Name: Textual Criticism
Code: LLT14373M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Linguistics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This curricular unit aims to introduce the students to the scientific field of Textual Criticism, as a fundamental discipline for the recovery and preservation of the textual heritage of languages which is built on and in interrelationship with several other disciplines, such as Paleography, Diplomatics, Codicology and Material Bibliography. Thus, in addition to the basic theoretical knowledge (history of the discipline, interdisciplinary relations, problems and typologies of the text and edition), it aims to introduce the students into the editorial practice, helping them make informed decisions in this subject matter which, at the end of the semester, will result in the edition of a text from our heritage.

Contents

1. Introduction
-Definition and purposes of textual criticism
-Textual criticism and philology
-Interdisciplinarity
2 . A brief history of Textual Criticism
-From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
-From the Renaissance to the XIX century
-The modern period and the arrival of the Digital era
3. The production and transmission of texts
-Basic concepts
-The manuscript
-The print
4. Types of editing
-Paleographic / diplomatic edition
- Interpretative edition, of single and multiple testimony
5. Editing rules
-Strategies
-Tactics
6. Editing workshop

Teaching Methods

This course is developed by means of group sessions of theoretical and practical nature. Theoretical expositions (supported by power-point, texts or other relevant material in each case), which will occupy the first part of the semester, will provide the students with the “knowledge” necessary for the transition into the “know how to do”, which is intended to be achieved in the second part of the semester, and to be applied into the development of an individual project of edition of a text from our heritage. The project will be partially developed in the last five collective sessions of the semester (editing workshop), where students will be able to work together and with their teacher, and individually supervised by the teacher in tutorial sessions (2h weekly). Students may choose between two modes of assessment: (i)submission of a project work (100%) or (ii) exam (Cf. RAUÉ).

Teaching Staff

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