Descripción del proyecto
El papel de la literatura en la formación de una sociedad pacífica
La búsqueda del civismo sigue siendo una aspiración atemporal. De la época del Renacimiento, con su cautivadora mezcla de virtud y crueldad, surge una perspectiva particular sobre los modales y la armonía social. El equipo del proyecto CIVILITY, que cuenta con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, se embarca en un viaje para descubrir los orígenes del civismo, lo que desafía la cronología convencional. En esta investigación se explora la idea de que la urbanidad madura existía en la Francia del Renacimiento, un siglo antes del nacimiento comúnmente reconocido de la «politesse française». Mediante el estudio de diálogos literarios, relatos breves y textos de los siglos XV y XVI, el equipo del proyecto identificará modelos fundamentales de civismo. Utilizando modernas herramientas de pragmática histórica, trata de desvelar la evolución de los comportamientos verbales y no verbales durante la época de la Casa de Valois.
Objetivo
Renaissance men and women had a passion for virtue and a genius for cruelty. They had wonderful manners and barbaric inclinations, lovely clothes and terrible diseases. Can they really teach us something about civility? I think they can: they were made of contradictions and so are we. And both, we and they, dream of a society where politeness and respect reduce tensions and allow a peaceful and pleasant cohabitation for all.
The goal of this research project, executed at the University of Lille under the supervision of Marie-Claire Thomine, is to prove that the roots of civility go back to the 16th century and that there was a mature form of civility in the Renaissance France a century before what is usually considered to be the beginning of the 'politesse française'. I will identify its main models and situate them in relation to the previous (medieval) ones and those from the century of Louis XIV. I will argue that Renaissance authors used the literature as the principal means of wide diffusion of this new civility, and this is precisely what makes this century a turning point in the history of manners in France and a part of the cultural reform initiated by the kings and queens of France to build a more cohesive and peaceful society. Furthermore, I want also to prove that this evolution can be observed using the modern tools of historical pragmatics, a branch of pragmatics that had developed strongly over the last twenty years but was not yet used to study the phenomenon of (im)politeness in France during the Renaissance. I will accomplish those goals through a program of close reading of prose texts (essentially literary dialogues and collections of short stories) of the 15th and 16th centuries, informed by the literature of civility, and through corpus-based research to detect and define evolution in verbal and nonverbal behaviors in the time of the last kings of the Valois dynasty.
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
59000 Lille
Francia