Decision-making in the Prose Novel of the 15th and 16th century

15、16世纪散文小说中的决策

• 批准号: 445577090
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Bruno Quast
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Literatur des Mittelalters
• 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/445577090?language=en
• 关键词: Decision; making; Prose; Novel; 15th

Decision-Making is said to be a characteristic trait of modernity. The freedom of making decisions over one’s life, was even described as an imposition of modern society which sociologists thus identified as "society of decision-making" (Schimank). Any process of decision-making is tightly linked to the socially determined self-concept of the individual, since processes of decision-making reflect the scope of self-determination and -alienation of the individual. Having to decide and therefore having to cope with the contingency and implicit risk of decision-making constitutes an exceptional and risky social practice. As such, however, decision-making is not exclusively linked to modernity, but occurs already in premodern times. In particular, literature of the premodern era reflects upon and negotiates situations of decision-making.The project is aimed at systematically reconstructing and evaluating decision-making within the genre of the early modern prose novel. Thus, it will be re-evaluating the indices, research has claimed to mark the fundamental historical turn at the beginning of the 16th century (around 1500). Analyzing decision-making as a prominent form of social action opens up an innovative perspective of reconstructing the relationship between individual and society, self-determination and -alienation (be it provoked by God or by fate). Within the text material, experiences of decision-making are linked to biographical turning points as well as to crossroads of adventurous experiences. Here, pivotal questions are: Is decision-making expected of the characters, or are decisions regulated by transcendental forces? What topics are claimed to be the subject of human decision-making?Within the project, decision-making will be analyzed from three perspectives: In sub-project A, the relevance of religious knowledge on decision-making will be analyzed with regard to identity concepts of the premodern prose novel. Sub-project B aims at exploring narrative modes of depicting decision-making from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Times. The project shall be exploring whether the changes in depicting situations of decision-making are related to general transformations of interpreting the world and the self within this period of time. Sub-project C turns to the didactic potential of narrated decision-making when asking in how far narratives of decision-making are used to reflect upon ethical or religious norms.Methodologically, the project will be based on narratological paradigms as well as on theories of discourse history. Although the three sub-projects focus on separate topics within the scope of the general project, all investigations will be based on a common heuristic. In each project modes of decision-making will be differentiated with regard to the categories of internalization, collective negotiation, and externalization. All in all, the project opens up an innovative field of scholarly investigations into the early modern prose novel.

决策被认为是现代性的一个特征。自由决定自己的生活，甚至被描述为现代社会的一种强加，社会学家因此将其定义为“决策社会”（Schimank）。任何决策过程都与社会决定的个人自我概念密切相关，因为决策过程反映了个人自决和异化的范围。不得不作出决定，因此不得不科普决策过程中的偶然性和隐含的风险，这是一种特殊和危险的社会做法。然而，就其本身而言，决策并不完全与现代性相关，而是在前现代时代就已经发生了。特别是，前现代时期的文学反思和协商的情况下，决策。该项目旨在系统地重建和评估的早期现代散文小说体裁的决策。因此，它将重新评估指数，研究声称标志着16世纪初（约1500年）的根本历史转折。分析决策作为一种突出的社会行动形式，开辟了一个创新的视角，重建个人与社会之间的关系，自决和异化（无论是由上帝还是命运引起的）。在文本材料中，决策的经验与传记的转折点以及冒险经历的十字路口有关。在这里，关键的问题是：决策是期望的字符，还是决定由先验力量调节？哪些主题被认为是人类决策的主题？在项目中，决策将从三个角度进行分析：在子项目A中，宗教知识对决策的相关性将与前现代散文小说的身份概念进行分析。子项目B旨在探索描述中世纪至近代早期决策的叙事模式。该项目将探索在这段时间内，描述决策情况的变化是否与解释世界和自我的一般转变有关。分项目C在询问决策叙事在多大程度上被用来反思伦理或宗教规范时，转向叙事决策的教学潜力。在方法上，该项目将以叙事学范式和话语史理论为基础。虽然这三个子项目侧重于一般项目范围内的不同主题，但所有调查都将基于一个共同的启发。在每个项目中，决策模式将根据内部化、集体谈判和外部化的类别加以区分。总而言之，该项目为早期现代散文小说的学术研究开辟了一个创新的领域。