Fat Worlds II - Between Excess and Asceticism. Constructions of Collective and Individual Bodies in Pre-Modern Times (France; Italy)

脂肪世界 II - 过度与禁欲之间。

• 批准号: 431101838
• 负责人: Dr. Roberta Colbertaldo
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/431101838?language=en
• 关键词: Fat; Worlds; II; Between; Excess

The desire for a life of abundance, a world without hierarchies, is probably as old as humanity. In the course of the European Middle Ages, specific narratives emerged for it: the journey to the land of Cockaigne; the battle between carnival and Lent. At the same time, Christianity developed the figure of the potbellied glutton as the personification of greed. Excess and asceticism, fat and lean bodies have so far been captured by research primarily in binary models of interpretation. In contrast, we no longer want to ask primarily about a positive or negative evaluation of fat or thin bodies, of a lavish or frugal lifestyle, of a (Bakhtinian) affirmation of the body and physiological processes or a disciplining of the body. Instead, we turn our attention to literary texts that defy one-sided attributions (popular vs elitist; conservative vs subversive) and to the desires, fears and needs that manifest themselves in the constructions of individual and collective bodies we investigate. Thanks to our research within the project “Fette Welten” (Fat Worlds), we were able to create three extensive corpora on the thematic complexes of Cockaigne/ Carnival and Lent/ Fat Bodies, which contain entirely untapped sources. In the continuation proposal, we aim at a decidedly comparative expansion of the project, which will enable us to, 1) present for the first time an international reference work in the form of a multi-volume critical edition of European Cockaigne texts. Instead of the originally planned mere collection of texts, the sources we have discovered will be critically edited and commented; together with colleagues from German, English and Romance studies, a fundamental work on the European mythology of the land of Cockaigne will be presented. 2) The monograph to be written by Christine Ott, “Körper von Gewicht. Dicksein in der frühen Neuzeit” (Being fat in the early modern period), which, contrary to the original restriction to Italy and France, examines the discourse and construction of corpulence in the Italian, French, Spanish, German and English early modern periods on the basis of prominent literary and pictorial examples 3) as well as the interdisciplinary research volume Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe, co-edited by C. Ott (expected 2024 by Routledge), are equally to be considered as fundamental works, providing an in-depth analysis of Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe for the first time. 4) An abundance of unknown sources is also opened up by Roberta Colbertaldo's monograph on “Carnival and Lent. Literary and Pictorial Figurations of Collective Bodies in French and Italian Pre-Modernity”. Previously discussed (if at all) in the context of folkloristic studies and read referentially a corpus of mainly literary texts is analyzed with regard to genre traditions and specific strategies of textualization; at the same time, the texts are carefully contextualized and related to contemporary religious, medical, dietary and social discourses.

对富足生活的渴望，一个没有等级制度的世界，可能和人类一样古老。在欧洲中世纪的过程中，它出现了具体的叙述：前往科克涅土地的旅程；狂欢节与大斋节之争与此同时，基督教发展了大腹便便的贪吃者的形象，作为贪婪的化身。到目前为止，过度和禁欲、肥胖和瘦弱的身体主要是通过二元模型来解释的。相比之下，我们不再主要想问对肥胖或瘦的身体的积极或消极的评价，对奢侈或节俭的生活方式，对身体和生理过程的肯定或对身体的训练。相反，我们将注意力转向了那些反对片面归因（大众vs精英；保守vs颠覆）的文学文本，以及在我们所调查的个人和集体的结构中表现出来的欲望、恐惧和需求。由于我们在“肥胖世界”项目中的研究，我们能够创建三个关于Cockaigne/ Carnival和Lent/ Fat Bodies主题综合体的广泛语料库，其中包含完全未开发的资源。在继续提案中，我们的目标是对该项目进行决定性的比较扩展，这将使我们能够，1)首次以多卷本的形式呈现国际参考工作，批判欧洲的科克涅文本。我们将对发现的资料进行批判性的编辑和评论，而不是最初计划的单纯的文本收集；与来自德国，英国和浪漫研究的同事一起，将展示关于科克涅土地的欧洲神话的基础工作。2)由克里斯汀·奥特撰写的专著“Körper冯·格威希特”。Dicksein在der fr<s:1> hen Neuzeit”（现代早期肥胖），它与最初对意大利和法国的限制相反，在著名的文学和图片例子的基础上，研究了意大利、法国、西班牙、德国和英国早期现代时期的肥胖话语和建构，以及C. Ott参与编辑的跨学科研究卷《现代早期欧洲的肥胖身体》（预计2024年由劳特利奇出版）。同样被认为是基础著作，第一次提供了对近代早期欧洲肥胖身体的深入分析。罗伯塔·科尔伯塔尔多（Roberta Colbertaldo）关于“狂欢节和大斋节”（Carnival and Lent）的专著也开辟了大量未知来源。法国和意大利前现代性集体的文学和绘画形象”。之前在民俗学研究和参考阅读的背景下讨论过（如果有的话），主要是文学文本的语料库在类型传统和文本化的具体策略方面进行了分析；与此同时，这些文本被仔细地语境化，并与当代宗教、医学、饮食和社会话语相关。