DIGITAL PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF TEXTS WORKSHOP

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: GIUSEPPE PALAZZOLO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students at the end of the course should achieve the following objectives:

1) Knowledge and understanding: know the general characteristics of markup languages and in particular XML/TEI encoding; know the main tools for computational text analysis.

2) Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to identify lexically and semantically relevant elements in texts for digital text processing using quantitative analysis software; ability to encode texts in XML/TEI, choosing the most appropriate tags for encoding needs.

3) Making judgments: be able to interpret and critically analyze texts based on the data collected; be able to make critical evaluations of sources and make informed editorial decisions to present an authoritative and accurate edition of the text.

4) Communication skills: be able to communicate research findings and methodological choices made, highlighting crucial aspects, using appropriate terminology and different textual genres, both written and oral.

5) Learning skills: enhance the ability to study independently.

Course Structure

Lectures; exercises and laboratory activities.

Attendance of Lessons

Compulsory attendance.

Detailed Course Content

A. Introduction (1 ECTS).

Text reading and encoding; Digital Hermeneutics and literary studies; Distant and close reading and data visualization.

Textbook Information

A. Texts :

- Teoria e forme del testo digitale, ed. by M. Zaccarello, Roma, Carocci, 2019, capp. 1-3 e 6, pp. 33-70 e 95-114.

- F. Tomasi, Metodologie informatiche e discipline umanistiche, Roma, Carocci, 2008, chapter 5, pp. 143-167.

- G. Savoca, Lessicografia letteraria e metodo concordanziale, Firenze, Olschki, 2000, pp. 39-52.

- A. Sichera, La lecture concordantielle. Fenomenologia ed ermeneutica, in Ermeneutiche. Punti di vista sul confine, Euno edizioni, 2017/2019, pp. 89-103.

- F. Moretti, Conjectures on World Literature, «New Left Review», 84, Nov/Dec 2013, 15 pp.

- F. Ciotti, Distant reading in literary studies: a methodology in quest of theory, «Testo e senso», 23, 2021, pp. 195-213.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

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