Editing Theory - 1st semester

Objectives

To understand text editing in its organic connection with textual production, and the editing field as a set of social and material practices.
To know how to use such operational concepts as text , author, reader, book , language code and bibliographic code.

General characterization

Code

722091137

Credits

10

Responsible teacher

Rui Zink

Hours

Weekly - 3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None.

Bibliography

BLANCHOT, Maurice (1969), \"L´Entretien Infini\", Paris, Gallimard
BOURDIEU, Pierre (1992), \"Les Règles de l´Art\", Paris, Seuil
COMPAGNON, Antoine (1998), \"Le Démon de la Théorie\", Paris, Seuil
COTTINGTON, David (2013), \"The Avant-Garde. A Very Short Introduction\", Oxford, Oxford University Press
ECO, Umberto (1962), \"L´Oeuvre Ouverte\", Paris, Seuil, 1965
FOUCAULT, Michel (1969), \"O que é um Autor?\", Lisboa, Vega, 1992
LANDOW, George P. (2006), \"Hypertext 3.0\", Baltimore, The John Hopkins University Press
MCGANN, Jorome (2014), \"A New Republic of Letters\", Cambridge, Harvard University Press

Teaching method

Exposure to theoretical and methodological elements and its discussion in class, interspersed with the analysis of reference texts.

Evaluation method

Presentation of work in class, including a case analysis of about 5 pages, as well as a written essay of about 15 pages.

Subject matter

1 ) The two understandings of editing : that focused on reading as restoration (amendment and completion), or focused on writing as montage (reduction, addition, insertion, deletion, shrinkage, conciseness).
2 ) The question of philology (De Man, Compagnon). The collaborative nature of textual edition (McGann).
3) The text and his dependence on context: \"Pierre Ménard\", JL Borges. Contemporary lack of dependence : the \"rhizome\" of Deleuze and Guattari .
4) The question of the author and the authorship (Barthes, Foucault, Landow): situation in the time of Modernism and Avant-Garde ; situation in Internet time .
5 ) The concept of book (Mallarmé, Pessoa, Eco, Blanchot).
6) Sociological and hermeneutical aspects of the literary field (Bourdieu).

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