Classical and modern philology and literature

Professor: - Margherita CENTENARI
Academic discipline: Filologia della letteratura italiana (L-FIL-LET/13)
Field: A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity: Student's choice

30 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

hub: PARMA

course unit
in ITALIAN

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Learning objectives

The course (6 CFU) aims to provide students with an overview of the main concepts of digital textual criticism applied to ancient and modern documentary and literary texts. The course, aimed to beginners in the field of Digital Humanities, will inspire students focusing on: - analysis of ecdotic practices related to advanced case-studies; - basic
notions of digital encoding and scholarly editing. At the end of the course the students will be able both to design their own digital scholarly edition according to national and international standard languages (TEI-XML) and to consider digital philology from user perspective.
- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: by the end of the course the students will possess advanced skills in the field of philology and basic skills in the field of Digital Humanities. Special attention will be devoted to text close-reading, to the ecdotic/exegetic practice, to the translation of text-dependent questions in a digital language.
- APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: students will be able to apply their knowledge in order to improve their philological skills and to achieve basic skills in the field of Digital Humanities. In particular, the autonomous analysis of scientific apparatus of poetic and prose texts will be developed. At the end of the course students will be able to design and manipulate a model-edition and to translate it into a digital language.
- MAKING JUDGMENTS: the students will improve their ability to make judgments through the analysis of different case studies in the field of Digital Humanities. They will also develop autonomous thinking about the so called (and very controversial) “digital philology”.
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS: the study of digital languages is expected to impact in a positive way on communication skills. The students will be able to report and discuss the notions learned during the classes and from the texts, with particular attention to the accurate use of language, concepts and categories, and will be able to make an appropriate use of the specific vocabulary.
- LEARNING SKILLS: the students will improve their autonomous learning ability getting used to develop a critical attitude towards the sources and the texts.

Prerequisites

Basic notions of Philology (BA level).

Course unit content

Italian Philology; Standard Encoding Languages; Digital Scholarly Editions. After the first theoretical lessons, some case studies will be discussed, and the students will choose a topic on which they will write a paper or design their own DSE.

Full programme

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Bibliography

The students will study the texts read and explained during the classes and uploaded on the e-learning platform Elly. They will also study the following texts:

- Che cos’è un’edizione scientifica digitale, ed. by Tiziana Mancinelli e Elena Pierazzo, Roma, Carocci, 2020.

- Elena Pierazzo, La codifica dei testi. Un’introduzione, Roma, Carocci, pp. 1-100.

In addition, they will develop a DSE of a literary or documentary text to be planned in a collaborative way; the paper must be sent at least seven days before the exam to: margherita.centenari@unipr.it.

Teaching methods

Lectures and training sessions with practical encoding exercises. The texts analyzed during the classes will be uploaded on the e-learning platform Elly.

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination: the evaluation test will assess the achievement of the specific learning goals for the course. The examination topics and questions will focus on: 1. Philology in theory and practice; 2. Digital scholarly editing (case studies); 3. Bibliography; 4. Planned exposition of the students’ papers.

The most relevant criteria for the evaluation include:

- Unsatisfactory grade (score <18/30): lack of the basic skills of the course.

- Passing grade (score 18-24/30): the exam is deemed to be passed with a minimum of 60% of right answers.

- Positive grade (score 24-27/30): students can certificate a good knowledge of basics; they give good oral exposition and develop critical thinking.

- Excellent grade (score 28-30/30 cum laude): excellent knowledge of basics and advanced competences. Very good abilities to use specific language skills; excellent historical knowledge; argumentation consistency.

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