Description du projet
Un nouvel éclairage sur le rôle de la littérature dans la transformation de la société
La littérature américaine contemporaine reste mal comprise et ne rend pas compte de son impact profond sur la société. Les interprétations actuelles négligent les complexités évolutives du temps et du symbolisme de la nature sauvage dans les textes littéraires. Soutenu par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA), le projet WOT vise à redéfinir la nature sauvage en tant qu’expérience temporelle et à explorer son importance dans la formation de l’identité et de la culture américaines. Grâce à des efforts de collaboration et à des méthodologies innovantes, WOT promet d’approfondir notre compréhension du rôle de la littérature dans la transformation de la société. Cette approche innovante enrichit non seulement les études américaines, mais offre également un aperçu de l’évolution de l’identité et de la culture des États-Unis. Face aux défis sociétaux qui se profilent, WOT promet d’ouvrir la voie à une nouvelle façon de s’engager dans le pouvoir transformateur de la littérature.
Objectif
The project Wilderness of Time: Timescapes of Contemporary US Literature (WOT) proposes a novel and compelling interpretative framework for US fiction, herein named wilderness of time and which arises from the need to promote a reading of US literature that truly acknowledges its impact in framing the world we live in. WOT reworks and reframes the symbolism of the wilderness by considering time as the dimension in which the wilderness experience takes place nowadays and by retracing this metamorphosis in contemporary literary texts. By doing so, it fills a gap in American Studies, broadening the conception of US identity and culture as seen through its literature, starting from and going beyond its funding myths. WOT thus introduces an innovative perspective for both the scholarship concerning the study of time and temporality in contemporary US literature and that concerning the study of the wilderness, envisioning new ways through which literature can serve as an agent for social change. The research question concerns whether the combination of wilderness and time can provide a much needed framework to understand, through literature, how US identity has been changing, as well as the impact of such changeboth within and outside its borders. Thus, WOT would enhance the importance of EU institutions as valuable teaching and research centers (if not as counter-environmental institutions) in this field, to be achieved also through the implementation of sustainable and inclusive teaching/research tools. In the present geopolitical context, this will also bring a crucial contribution to a renovated European vision concerning current societal challenges. Engaging with universities in Italy and in the US and making use of DH tools, the project brings a significant contribution to American Studies by introducing a novel approach on US literature and culture, developed through creative and collaborative practices and methods for teaching and research in this field.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Appel à propositions
(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01
Voir d’autres projets de cet appelRégime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global FellowshipsCoordinateur
40126 Bologna
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