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RTHRIEL · The Rhyme: Theory and History of the rhyme in Italian and European literature

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-11-01 → 2018-10-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 159 461 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Римата в италианската и европейската литература се анализира като инструмент, който свързва звука с поетичния език. Това помага да се разбере как е възникнала тя и каква е била функцията ѝ от ранната литература до Ренесанса.

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The Rhyme: Theory and History of the rhyme in Italian and European literature

The project “The rhyme: Theory and History of the Rhyme in Italian and European Literature” addressed an apparently simple, but still unanswered question in literary studies: what is the meaning and function of rhyme in poetry, and how could such a peculiar phonic device come to be the distinctive feature of poetic language for about a thousand years? The answer suggested and discussed in the project links the function of regular rhyme with the rhetorical and figurative elaboration of the poetic text, drawing a connection between the formal device and the essential structures of poetic language which may give a general explanation of the meaning of rhyme and of its success over the centuries. This perspective, trying to go beyond the merely descriptive or philological approach typical of metrical studies, has been the basis for developing for the first time a general theory of rhyme and a short history thereof in the first centuries of vernacular literature (from its origins to Renaissance). As appeared from the interest shown by a general audience in Dr. Di Santo’s conferences, the topic may be of interest not only for specialists, but also for a wider public, which even today comes often in contact with rhymed texts in many other ways than only through poetry, e.g. through pop music, folklore or advertising. The examination of the problem posed by the origins of rhyme, however, due to the large amount of data emerged in the research work, developed into a second autonomous research line: a plausible solution of this long-standing question, based on the so-far overlooked relation of metrics to music in early romance poetry, may shed light on the function of rhyme at its origin and thus provide a potentially decisive argument to solve one of the major outstanding questions in literary studies, that of the origin of vernacular lyric poetry itself, at least in its formal structures.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The objective of the present research proposal is to outline a general theory of the rhyme which might fully explain themeaning of such a device, filling a very significant gap in metrics and literary theory. The research has already started with aforthcoming article and a 3,5 months DAAD scholarship at the Freie Univestität Berlin: the present research proposal aims atdeveloping it into a monograph. The already written chapters concern the general theory (1-Figurative function of the rhyme;2-Outlines of a semiotics of the rhyme) and the intertextual implications of the rhyme. The new chapters to be written fromscratch will concern: 1) the outlines of a general history of the rhyme (still lacking), from its origins up to the 20th Century; 2)the analysis, from the outlined theoretical perspective, of the main traditional rhyming structures (terzina, ottava, sonetto,canzone etc.) and their significance to the text; 3) an account of the partial revival of rhyme in present-day literature, in theattempt to answer the question if rhyme is still possible today and to what extent; 4) the relation of rhyme andpsychoanalysis; 5) the question – hardy ever dealt with – of the relation of rhyme and rhyme patterns to music; 6) a survey ofthe use of rhyme in non-literary text, such as nursery rhymes, pop music lyrics, advertisements, to check the validity and thelimits of the theory beyond literature and also to address a wider audience; 7) the outline of a “philosophy of rhyme”,examining the aesthetical conception implied by such a device; 8) an analysis of the use of the word “rhyme” when itappears in rhyme producing a metadiscourse in metrics and poetics. Besides the monograph, an important result will be thedevelopment of a refined rhyme-search software for digitized text corpora. The research results will be disseminated alsothrough the web (wikies, websites, high-profile literary blogs) and through participation in workshops and internationalconferences.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · BerlinКоординаторГермания