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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Specifics of editing correspondence in comparison to other literary documents. Genre stratification of ego-documents. Criteria for their stratification: public vs. private; spoken vs. written; standard vs. non-standard; literary vs. non-literary; whole vs. fragment. 2. Editor and proofreader. How do they differ and why is it necessary to separate the two positions? How do their competences differ? What is their relationship to the publishing institution? What are their job responsibilities? What is their relationship to the author and the manuscript/text? 3. Personal letters as archival materials. Editing options: facsimile, diplomatic edition, editorial revision (documentary and literary edition). Basic rules of editing. Editorial report (on a document that has been edited for language and spelling). Letters from writers and institutions in the LA PNP collections. KHE - F. Gellner and the editing of letters in KHE. Epistolography in LA PNP collections x The letter as a literary work (Fr. Kafka, J. Orten, B. Němcová, etc.). Inventories in LA PNP and working with them. 4. Synchronic and diachronic lines of context in the editorial apparatus (notes and explanations). Changes in contextualization according to the chosen editorial perspective (document x literature). Basic requirements and limits for the note apparatus. 5. Literary-historical introduction (prefaces, afterwords, medallions to correspondence). 6. Addressee Jan Čep (transcription of text). Checking students' diplomatic transcriptions; students' suggestions for spelling and language corrections. 7. Contextualization with the author's work. Working with Jan Čep's Bibliography. 8. Contextualization with the author's life. Mojmír Trávníček: Pilgrimage and Exile. Brno: Proglas 1996. 9. Contextualization with other correspondence by the author. (J. Florian, A. Skoumal, Jan Zahradníček) 10. Preparation of an editorial report. 11. Visit to LA PNP and the Literary Museum in Prague. 12. Written elaboration of the working output from LA PNP.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The seminar will focus on the issue of editing personal correspondence in the context of other literary documents or the author's work. The seminar will be practical in nature: the material for editing will consist of letters addressed to Jan Čep, written mainly by Emanuel Frynta Sr., Albert Vyskočil, Jan Strakoš, Miloš Dvořák, Ivan Slavík, and others. The aim of the seminar will be the complete editorial preparation of the selected material, including the preparation of an editorial report, notes and explanations, and a literary-historical introduction.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
1) Participation in seminars (max. 2 absences) 2) Transcription and editing of assigned letters 3) Research on assigned additional correspondence 4) Participation in the preparation of notes, editorial reports, and the draft of a literary-historical introduction. 5) Written work output from the visit to LA PNP
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Recommended literature
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Čechurová, J. - Randák, J. a kol. Základní problémy studia moderních a soudobých dějin. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, FF UK, Praha 2014.
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Havel, Rudolf a kol. Editor a text. Paseka, Praha - Litomyšl 2006.
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Komenda, P. (2008). Ediční příprava korespondence. Olomouc.
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Kosák, M. - Flaišman, J. Editologie. Od náčrtu ke knize. Ed. Varianty, sv. 9. ÚČL AV ČR, Praha 2018.
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Kosák, M. - Flaišman, J. (2010). Podoby textologie. Praha.
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Magincová, D. Příručka nakladatelského redaktora. Pavel Mervart, Červený Kostelec 2008.
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