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Course: Textology

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Course title Textology
Course code KBH/TEXTO
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Komenda Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Textual process. From the manuscript to the book. The models of intermediation. The role of publishing in the textual process. The act of writing and its medium (manuscript draft, typescript, electronic record). The role of typography in conceiving a literary work. The book and the literary and book artifact. The models of intermediation and its inner factors. Aesthetic norms and values. Versions and variants of the literary work can be determined by the author's intent as well as the changes of the cultural context into which the texts and manuscripsts are put. The models of intermediation and censorship and auto-censorship. To what extent does the auto-censorship become an inner or outer factor of the textual process? The outer factors of the textual process. Editor, typesetter, copyist. Critical edition of different versions of the text. Variants of the poem interpretation. Selecting the original text out of other variants. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks and the problems that result from them for editors. Selection. Works. Writings.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work Activities
Learning outcomes
In the seminar and lectures, attention will be focused namely to the following research and observation: development of the textological theories (from the formalist concepts and structuralism to the genetic criticism, semiotics etc) influence fundamental terms of textology: text, invariant, variant, coherence, evolution of texts and poetic works etc.
Basic Knowledge of the contemporary textology Knowledge of textual process Ability to derive the method for a text to be published from the knowledge of textual process
Prerequisites
Students are expected to know the basic textological terms and to have read the following books: Havel, Rudolf (ed.). Editor a text. Úvod do praktické textologie. Praha; Litomyšl 2006. Pistorius, Vladimír. Jak se dělá kniha. Praha; Litomyšl 2003. Vašák, Pavel. Textologie. Teorie a ediční praxe. Univerzita Karlova, Praha 1993. For further reading see the handout of Textology (lectures) for the Master's degree students.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

Requirements to pass Textology (TX) (lectures + seminar) 1) regular attendance at the lectures 2) submitting a written analysis of a text documentation (approximately 4 pages) 3) passing a test (at the end of the term) 4) maximum of 2 absences is allowed 5) participation in discussions
Recommended literature
  • Otázky textologie. Česká literatura 14, 1966, č.1.
  • Bartmiński, Jerzy. (2009). Tekstologia. Warszawa.
  • Binar, Vladimír - Fučík, Bedřich. Zpráva o vydávání Díla Jakuba Demla. Revolver Revue, 2000, č. 42, s. 179-241.
  • Červenka, Miroslav. (2009). Textologické studie. Praha.
  • Górski, Konrad. (1978). Tekstologia i edytorstwo dzieł literackich. Warsawa.
  • Havel, R.?Štorek, B. (eds.). (1971). Editor a text. Úvod do praktické textologie. Praha.
  • Havel, Rudolf. O tzv. jazykové úpravě ve vydáních klasiků. Naše řeč 38, 1955, s. 183-186.
  • Havel, Rudolf. Vydávání dokumentů k životu a dílu Boženy Němcové. Slovo a slovesnost 13, 1951-52, s. 175-178.
  • Kosák, Michal - Flaišman, Jiří. Kritická hybridní edice. Česká literatura 57, 2009, č. 2, s. 266-275.
  • Kosák, Michal - Flaišman, Jiří. Poznámky k možnostem záznamu variant. Česká literatura 56, 2008, č. 3, s. 406-416.
  • Králík, Oldřich. Co je to básníkova vůle?. In: Králík, Oldřich. Osvobozená slova, ed. J. Opelík. Torst, Praha 1995, s. 329-335..
  • Králík, Oldřich. (1963). Text Slezských písní. Ostrava.
  • Mukařovský, Jan. Varianty a stylistika. In: Mukařovský, Jan. Kapitoly z české poetiky I. Praha 1941, s. 231-236.
  • Špirit, Michael. Textologie dnes? Česká literatura 57, 2009, č. 2, s. 221-231.
  • Vašák a kol. (1993). Textologie: teorie a ediční praxe. Praha.
  • Vašák, Pavel. (1980). Metody určování autorství. Praha.
  • Vodička, Felix - Janský, Karel - Spunar, Pavel. Máchovy rukopisy a tzv. "máchovské apokryfy". Česká literatura 6, 1958, s. 176-197..
  • Vodička, Felix. Identita Slezských písní. K otázce kanonizovaného čtenářského vydání jejich textu. Česká literatura 13, 1965, č. 1, s. 51-61.
  • Vodička, Felix. Naše zkušenosti s vydáváním klasiků české literatury. Česká literatura 4, 1956, č. 1, s. 19-33.
  • Vodička, Felix. Nové svazky národní klenotnice. Slovo a slovesnost 10, 1947-1948, s. 188-189.
  • Vodička, Felix. Nový pokus o revizi textu Máchova díla. Česká literatura 4, 1956, č. 1, s. 74-83.


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