'Voix' and 'parole': Interdiscursive Voice Regimes in French and Italian Meditation Literature from the 16th and 17th Century

“Voix”与“parole”：16、17世纪法国和意大利冥想文学中的话语间话语体系

• 批准号: 465714057
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Stephanie Wodianka
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Romanistik
• 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/465714057?language=en
• 关键词: Voix; parole; Interdiscursive; Voice; Regimes

In the aftermath of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the relation between verbal prayer and mental prayer was revalued: inner prayer should be given preference. This new formula, that entered the Catechism of Trent and was issued to priests in all congregations, will be at the starting point of the following literary research project. Both the enhancement and the dissociation of the inner prayer from the verbal one brought about new challenges for practitioners in the contexts of counter-reformation: On the one hand and most importantly, the new preference implied a relative ‘liberation’ from the (predetermined) word; on the other hand, what followed from this new freedom, was also a new obligation. Individual practitioners had to find their own words and voice. My research project aims firstly at carving out the literary and cultural historic potential of both this new freedom and simultaneously uncertain obligation. Secondly, light will be shed on the consequences of Tridentine voice formation in interdiscursive contexts (retorics, opera, courtly conversation, lecture). Has the question emerging from the charge to differentiate or even to mark a difference between self-creating and dictated word suggested the literarization of prayers and mediation? And in how far has the distinction between inner-mental and external-vocal voice lead to self-reflexivity of prayer and meditation literature in relation to voice and voicedness? Whose voice is uttered in prayer and meditation, and what are its aesthetic qualities?The project’s innovative character is firstly its understanding of meditation writing (e.g. devotional exercises and poems) as performative literature and secondly its focus on interdiscursive crossings resulting from an (apparently) ‘exclusively’ religious process of voice formation. The Tridentine question of voice radiates at the same time on a variety of contemporary discourses. In the same way it enhanced theoretical reflection of voice regimes, the (practical) use of voice was affected. Much more so: It is the view of the variety and interconnectedness of contemporary voice regimes and uses that has been marking the performativity of inner prayer voices and its resulting literary potentials. The comparative analysis of this cultural challenge, that has so far only been conducted with either a focus on France or Italy, is a major desideratum.The project’s focus will be on the semantic potential of voice and utterance, within which two main strands of analysis shall be marked that are linked through interdependent and historically locatable voice regimes. Project A) will engage in a comparative analysis of cultural ascriptions leading to (pre)national imprints on French and Italian prayer and meditation writing; project B) will deal with the topic of voice gendering. It shall be pointed out that through uttering ‘female’ and ‘male’ (masked or appropriated) voices new aesthetic means of legitimization were generated.

在特伦特会议(1545-1563)之后，口头祈祷和精神祈祷之间的关系得到了重新评估：内心祈祷应该得到优先考虑。这个新的公式，进入特伦特的教义问答，并分发给所有会众的祭司，将是接下来的文学研究项目的起点。内在祈祷和口头祈祷的加强和分离都给实践者在反改革的背景下带来了新的挑战：一方面，最重要的是，新的偏好意味着相对地从(预定的)世界中解放出来；另一方面，这种新的自由随之而来的也是一种新的义务。个别练习者必须找到自己的话和声音。我的研究项目首先旨在挖掘这种新的自由和同时不确定的义务的文学和文化历史潜力。其次，将阐明在话语间语境(反驳、歌剧、宫廷谈话、演讲)中形成特里登丁声音的后果。从区分甚至标记自我创造的单词和口述的单词之间的区别的指控中出现的问题，是否暗示了祈祷和调解的字面意义？内心的声音和外部的声音之间的区别在多大程度上导致了祈祷和冥想文学关于声音和声音的自我反省？谁的声音是在祈祷和冥想中发出的，它的美学特征是什么？该项目的创新之处首先是它将冥想写作(例如，虔诚练习和诗歌)理解为表演文学，其次它专注于由(显然)宗教声音形成过程产生的话语间的交叉。声音的三丹亭问题同时辐射到各种当代话语中。同样，它加强了对声音制度的理论反映，也影响了声音的(实际)使用。更是如此：正是对当代声音制度和用途的多样性和相互关联性的看法，一直标志着内在祈祷声音的表演性及其由此产生的文学潜力。到目前为止，对这一文化挑战的比较分析只集中在法国或意大利，这是一个主要的期望。该项目的重点将是声音和话语的语义潜力，其中将标记通过相互依赖和历史上可定位的声音制度联系在一起的两个主要分析线索。项目A)将对导致法语和意大利语祈祷和冥想写作(Pre)民族印记的文化归属进行比较分析；项目B)将讨论声音性别问题。应该指出的是，通过发出“女性”和“男性”(蒙面或被挪用)的声音，产生了新的合法化的审美手段。