Descripción del proyecto
El uso de la violencia en la narrativa española de los siglos XVI y XVII
La literatura pastoril y cortesana floreció durante el Siglo de Oro español de los siglos XVI y XVII. Escrita casi exclusivamente por hombres y muy leída por mujeres, legitimaba la violencia para captar la atención de los lectores y llegar a un final feliz. El objetivo del proyecto VIOLENDINGS, financiado por las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, es proponer un concepto novedoso para examinar la estructura narrativa de estos géneros. Se analizarán los métodos utilizados para neutralizar y avalar la violencia, de modo que las tramas desemboquen en un final alegre. El equipo del proyecto también estudiará la interacción entre los principios de la sociedad patriarcal y la estructura de la narrativa idealista.
Objetivo
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.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
MSCA-PF - MSCA-PFCoordinador
20122 Milano
Italia