Description du projet
L’utilisation de la violence dans les récits espagnols des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
La littérature telle que la pastorale et les romans courtois ont fleuri pendant l’âge d’or espagnol des années 1500 et 1600. Presque exclusivement écrite par des hommes et abondamment lue par des femmes, la violence était légitimée pour capter l’attention du public et aboutir à une fin heureuse. Financé par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet VIOLENDINGS se propose de mettre en avant un concept inédit pour examiner la structure narrative de ces genres. Il analysera les approches utilisées pour neutraliser et cautionner la violence afin que les intrigues aboutissent à une heureuse conclusion. Le projet étudiera également l’interaction entre les principes de la société patriarcale et la structure du récit idéaliste.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
MSCA-PF - MSCA-PFCoordinateur
20122 Milano
Italie