Descrizione del progetto
L’uso della violenza nella narrativa spagnola risalente ai secoli XVI e XVII
Durante l’età d’oro della letteratura spagnola (XVI e XVII secolo), sono fioriti generi quali il romanzo pastorale e quello cortese. Di paternità quasi esclusivamente maschile, questi scritti venivano letti in prevalenza dalle donne e in essi era legittimato l’uso della violenza al fine di catturare l’attenzione del pubblico e giungere a un lieto fine. Finanziato dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto VIOLENDINGS si propone di sviluppare un concetto innovativo per esaminare la struttura narrativa di questi generi. Il progetto analizzerà gli approcci impiegati per neutralizzare e favorire la violenza in modo da consentire alla trama di progredire verso una conclusione a lieto fine. VIOLENDINGS studierà inoltre l’interazione presente tra i principi della società patriarcale e la struttura della narrativa idealista.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-PF - MSCA-PFCoordinatore
20122 Milano
Italia