Mars and his Pistol. Contemporary Novelty and Epic Tradition in Early Modern France

火星和他的手枪。

• 批准号: 289579900
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Bernhard Huss
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Romanische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/289579900?language=en
• 关键词: Mars; his; Pistol.; Contemporary; Novelty

The sub¬project examines a corpus of epic texts in French and Latin from the 16th and 17th centuries. All of these texts employ the established conventions of the classical epic tradition, while simultaneously dealing with highly contemporary issues: each of them textualizes actual historical events which date back a hundred years at most, and sometimes only a few months (Aktualitätsepik). The corpus of primary texts includes, among others: the Henriades, a series of epics on Henri IV authored by Sebastien Garnier (1593/94) and Jean Le Blanc (1604), inter alios; the Lutetias (1617) by Paulus Thomas the Elder, another work whose main concern lies with Henri IV’s rise to power and French history from 1584 to 1590; the historical-cum-chronicle-style epic La Cité du Montélimar (1591) by Alexandre de Pontaymeri; the epic fragment La France divisée (c. 1594) by Pierre Boton, a critical synopsis of the political situation in late 16th-century France ravaged by civil war; the Borbonias (1623) by Abraham Remmius on the historical situation in the years between 1620 and 1622; and the Rupellais (1630) by Paulus Thomas the Younger on the struggle for La Rochelle in the 1620s. Further to this, epic texts from around 1500 – about, among other things, the campaigns of Louis XII in northern Italy – are analysed with a view to a comparison between epic forms of representation on the one hand, and 16th-century historiography with its evident affinity to the epic mode on the other hand. The project’s goal is to outline the generic profile of Aktualitätsepik with greater precision by examining the genre’s convergences and divergences with the contemporary discourse of practical historiography and historical theories concerning the writing of history. In so doing, the objective is to establish a clearer definition of the epic’s subject matter and methods of textualisation within its immediate temporal context. What is more, unravelling the complex entanglements of ‚old‘ and ‚new‘ in the individual epics elucidates the historical conceptions of the epic as a genre that inform these texts – texts, which deliberately select and perpetuate certain elements from the reservoir of epic tradition, while rejecting and discarding others. In how far do the historical primary texts in all their hybridity contribute to change within the conceptualisation of the epic that is taking place in contemporary theorisations of the genre? Speed, characteristics, epochal-discursive contingency and potential directionality of this change are important factors in this context. Of crucial importance to the project is the issue of reciprocal conditioning between the epic formularium and the historical situation depicted in the epics in question: the referencing of current events in epic texts influences and modifies the concrete form of literary potentialities and the generic options available; conversely, it also alters the perspective on actual historical events.

该子项目研究了16世纪和17世纪法语和拉丁语史诗文本的语料库。所有这些文本都采用了古典史诗传统的既定惯例，同时处理高度现代化的问题：它们每一个都将最多可追溯到一百年前的实际历史事件，有时只有几个月（Aktualitätsepik）。主要文本的语料库包括，除其他外：亨利四世，一系列的史诗，由卡尼尔（1593/94年）和让勒布朗（1604年），除其他作家; Lutetias（1617年）由保卢斯托马斯长老，另一个工作，其主要关注的是亨利四世的崛起权力和法国历史，从1584年至1590年;亚历山大·德·蓬泰梅里（Alexandre de Pontaymeri）的历史兼编年史风格史诗《蒙特利马尔城》（La Cité du Montélimar，1591）;史诗片段《法兰西分裂》（La France divisée，c. 1594年）由皮埃尔·波顿（Pierre Boton）撰写，对16世纪后期法国内战蹂躏的政治局势进行了批判性的概述;亚伯拉罕·雷米乌斯（Abraham Remmius）的Borbonias（1623年）对1620年至1622年的历史局势进行了描述;小保卢斯·托马斯（Paulus the Younger）的Rupellais（1630年）对17世纪20年代La罗谢尔的斗争进行了描述。除此之外，还分析了1500年左右的史诗文本，其中包括路易十二在北方意大利的战役，目的是一方面比较史诗的表现形式，另一方面比较16世纪的史学与史诗模式的明显联系。该项目的目标是通过研究该流派与当代实用史学和有关历史写作的历史理论的趋同和分歧，更精确地勾勒出Aktualitätsepik的一般概况。这样做的目的是建立一个更清晰的定义史诗的主题和方法的文本化在其直接的时间背景。更重要的是，解开个别史诗中“旧”与“新”的复杂纠缠，阐明了史诗作为一种体裁的历史观念，这种体裁为这些文本提供了信息--文本故意从史诗传统的宝库中选择并延续某些元素，同时拒绝和抛弃其他元素。在当代史诗理论中，历史原始文本的混杂性在多大程度上促成了史诗概念化的变化？这种变化的速度、特征、时代话语的偶然性和潜在的方向性是这一背景下的重要因素。对于这个项目来说，至关重要的是史诗公式和史诗中所描述的历史情境之间的相互制约问题：史诗文本中对当前事件的引用影响和修改了文学潜力的具体形式和可用的一般选择;相反，它也改变了对实际历史事件的看法。