Descrizione del progetto
Svelare i meccanismi di formazione del canone
In letteratura, la nozione di testo o autore canonico ha un significato profondo, in quanto conferisce prestigio e autorità a determinate opere. Eppure, i canoni non sono entità fisse, ma sono piuttosto soggetti a una perpetua evoluzione. Le forze enigmatiche che danno forma a questi canoni e la loro influenza rimangono sfuggenti. In questo contesto, il progetto MECANO, finanziato dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, cerca di far luce sui meccanismi di formazione del canone e di trasmissione del sapere nei testi antichi greci e latini. Per esplorare il modo in cui i testi acquisiscono uno status canonico e quello in cui questi canoni impliciti cambiano nel tempo, il progetto impiega metodi qualitativi e digitali su vasti corpora di testi. Questa iniziativa promuove un nuovo modello per lo studio della canonicità e la crescita di studiosi di scienze umane con consapevolezza storica e competenze digitali.
Obiettivo
To consider a text or author canonical is to invest it with prestige, authority or even timeless value. Canons set standards and define what is deemed worthy of transmission, but at the same time they are constantly undergoing change. The distinction between those who belong to the canon and those who do not inevitably operates a dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. It is not clear, however, who if anyone is the agent of such operations and what influences the way canons are shaped.
MECANO (The Mechanics of Canon Formation and the Transmission of Knowledge from Greco-Roman Antiquity) aims to advance our understanding of the mechanics of canon formation and knowledge transmission of ancient Greek and Latin texts. It will look at a) how texts, ideas or authors become canonical by being cited, translated, studied, imitated, excerpted, or compiled by later authors, and b) how such implicit canons have changed across time and space by being received in different cultural, intellectual and linguistic environments. To study the dynamics of canonicity from a longitudinal perspective, MECANO will combine qualitative approaches to intellectual history and reception studies with applications of digital and computational methods on extensive text corpora. Bringing together six universities and an array of academic and non-academic institutions interested in the topic of canonicity (publishers, museums, academies of sciences, national libraries, arts companies), as well as a centre for entrepreneurship and an ICT company, MECANO created a training programme that responds to the need for historically conscious and digitally skilled Humanities PhDs. MECANO's twofold goal is to develop a new model for the study of canonicity and to train the PhD researchers to become versatile intellectuals ready to tackle the challenges of modern engagement with the topics of canonicity, diversity, and cultural heritage.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinatore
3000 Leuven
Belgio