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Violence and Happy Endings in the Spanish Golden Age Narrative

Projektbeschreibung

Der Einsatz von Gewalt in spanischen Erzählungen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts

Literaturwerke wie etwa die Schäferromane und die höfischen Romane erlebten während des Goldenen Zeitalters in Spanien im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert eine Blütezeit. Fast ausschließlich von Männern geschrieben und weitgehend von Frauen gelesen, wurde Gewalt legitimiert, um die Aufmerksamkeit des Publikums zu erregen und letztlich zu einem guten Ausgang der Geschichte zu gelangen. Das im Rahmen der Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen finanzierte Projekt VIOLENDINGS zielt darauf ab, ein neuartiges Konzept zur Untersuchung der narrativen Struktur dieser Genres zu erarbeiten. Hierfür werden die Ansätze analysiert, die zur Neutralisierung und Inkaufnahme von Gewalt verwendet werden, um die Handlungen zu einem freudigen Ende führen zu können. Das Projekt wird auch die Wechselwirkung zwischen den Fundamenten der patriarchalischen Gesellschaft und der Struktur der idealistischen Erzählung beleuchten.

Ziel

The purpose of this project is to study the complex integration of violence in the Spanish Golden Age happy ending narrative. In the ‘idealistic’ Spanish narrative genres of the second half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th century, such as the pastoral and the courtly novel, the inclusion of violence is problematic. It is useful to create a gripping plot, but must be ‘solved’ to reach a happy ending. The project will propose the concept of ‘economy of violence’ to study the narrative structure of these genres and will analyze the strategies to deactivate and legitimize violence that allow these plots to resolve into a happy ending.

Beyond the literary approach, the project has the ambition to propose a multidisciplinary understanding of these strategies, bringing together literature, historical sociology and gender studies. Considering the social structures of the Golden Age Spain, together with the concrete context of production and consumption of these genres (almost always written by men and widely consumed by women), the project intends to provide a critical analysis of what was presented as a happy ending and an ideal solution to violence -particularly to gender-based violence- through these plots. This panorama will be completed with a separate study of the courtly novels written by women and an analysis of how the narrative schemes produced by the male hegemonic culture and the traditional happy endings were transformed or even rejected in their narrative production.

The project has two main objectives. On one hand, from a literary perspective, it aims to arrive at a better understanding of the ‘idealistic’ narrative genres of the Spanish Golden Age through the concept of ‘economy of violence’. On the other hand, from a socio-historical and a gender perspective, it aims to analyze the interplay between the dictates of the Spanish patriarchal society of the 16th-17th centuries and the structure of the idealistic narrative of this period.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

Finanzierungsplan

MSCA-PF - MSCA-PF

Koordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 188 590,08
Adresse
Via Festa Del Perdono 7
20122 Milano
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Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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