Gossip and Nonsense: Excessive Language in Renaissance France

这个项目探讨了法国文艺复兴时期文学中的八卦和废话的用途。调查文艺复兴时期著名和不太著名的作品中的八卦和废话将提供一个独特的视角来看待过去，洞察我们的文化遗产的一部分，否则这些遗产将被隐藏起来。它也将揭示当今的关注，因为八卦和废话仍然在日常生活中发挥作用，从小报的八卦专栏到令人费解的官方行话。在法国文艺复兴时期的历史背景下，八卦和废话具有特殊的力量，因为它们标志着当代语言过度的风格，在大量的列表中，令人生厌的赞美，以及泛滥的修辞，似乎在道德或意义或两者兼而有之方面走得太远。事实上，伟大的荷兰人文主义者伊拉斯谟（Erasmus）也是最重要的理论家之一，他的关于如何写作的指南在整个欧洲都有巨大的影响力。就法国文艺复兴时期的文学而言，无论是流言蜚语还是无稽之谈都没有得到太多的研究，但它们需要持续的调查。八卦在文艺复兴时期的故事中扮演着重要的角色，因为它有着不同寻常的能力，既能加强那些分享八卦的人之间的联系，又能通过对个人进行破坏性的诽谤来破坏社交网络。事实上，八卦成为当时的一种文学体裁，因为男性作家通过声称转录所有社会阶层女性八卦的作品表达他们的政治观点。废话甚至可以提出更基本的问题，正如拉伯雷写的废话章节对解释本身提出的问题一样。然而，就像八卦一样，胡说八道也可以服务于政治或道德目的，嘲笑那些试图整理人类经验混乱的法律的和医学著作和实践。因此，我们的研究将揭示在法国文艺复兴时期的文学文本的废话和八卦的社会，政治和道德用途的广泛。休·罗伯茨博士（埃克塞特大学）和艾米丽巴特沃思博士（伦敦国王学院）将管理该项目，其中涉及以下活动：1。专著2部，分别论述废话和八卦。博士研究生，论文题目是法国文艺复兴时期文学中的喜剧性委婉语。为一组国际专家举办专题讨论会和讲习班，以期为一份经过审查的期刊制作一期特刊。2篇同行评审文章，由巴特沃思和罗伯茨共同撰写。与2位艺术家合作，Dominic Hills和克莱尔Qualmann，他们将与研究人员互动，制作一个记录创作过程的博客和艺术品，包括，例如，iPhone应用程序，提供文艺复兴时期故事的动画版本（Hills），以及表演和传单/海报（Qualmann）。一个介绍该项目的网站，结合了该项目的博客和一个淫秽数据库，作为过度文艺复兴时期语言的一个例子。

This project explores the uses of gossip and nonsense in literature during the French Renaissance. Investigating Renaissance gossip and nonsense in both well-known and less famous works will provide a unique perspective onto the past, an insight into part of our cultural heritage which would otherwise remain hidden. It will also shed light on concerns of the present day as gossip and nonsense still play a part in everday life, ranging from the gossip columns of tabloids to incomprehensible official jargon. Gossip and nonsense have a particular power in the historical context of Renaissance France because they mark the point where the contemporary style of linguistic excess, seen in abundant lists, fulsome praise, and overflowing rhetoric, seems to go too far, in terms of either morality or meaning or both. Indeed, the great Dutch humanist Erasmus, whose guidebooks on how to write copiously were enormously influential throughout Europe, was also one of the foremost theorists of the dangers of an unbridled tongue. Neither gossip nor nonsense has been much studied as far as French Renaissance literature is concerned, yet they demand sustained enquiry. Gossip has an important role to play in Renaissance stories, given its unusual capacity both to reinforce links between those sharing gossip and undermine social networks, by casting damaging aspersions on individuals. Indeed, gossip became a literary genre of the time, as male writers expressed their political views through works purporting to transcribe the gossip of women of all social classes. Nonsense can pose even more basic questions, as the chapters of nonsense penned by Rabelais call interpretation itself into question. Yet, like gossip, nonsense can serve political or moral purposes, mocking the kind of legal and medical writings and practices that sought to order the messiness of human experience. Hence our research will uncover the wide range of social, political and moral uses made of nonsense and gossip in French Renaissance literary texts. Dr Hugh Roberts (University of Exeter) and Dr Emily Butterworth (King's College London), will manage the project which involves the following activities:1. 2 monographs, on nonsense and gossip respectively.2. A PhD studentship, for a thesis on comic sexual euphemism in French Renaissance literature.3. A symposium and workshop for a team of international specialists with a view to producing a special issue of a refereed journal.4. 2 peer-reviewed articles co-authored by Butterworth and Roberts.5. Collaboration with 2 artists, Dominic Hills and Clare Qualmann, who will produce in interaction with the researchers a blog documenting the creative process, and artwork, to include, for example, iPhone applications which give animated versions of Renaissance stories (Hills), and a performance as well as flyers/posters (Qualmann).6. A website presenting the project, incorporating the project blog and a database of obscenities as an example of excessive Renaissance language.