Reception of the Spectator in the Romance Discourse: Spain

With the project we are planning a formal and thematic analysis of the Moral Weeklies in Spain, as there are El Pensador, El Censor, La Pensadora gaditana, El Corresponsal del Censor and El Duende crtico. The aim of the work is to show the strategies of fictionalization in these texts and the principal conditions of their narrative construction in the specific surrounding of local 18th century discourse. There is still no research realized in this important field. It is necessary to describe the way, in which the phenomenon of the Moral Weeklies has taken place in Spain and how this event can be observed in the texts. There is a rich game of masking and unmasking of the narrators at different levels creating a whole system of communication with a great number of narrative microstructures, which are tightly connected with the social discourses, especially with the literary system of Spain. First we will establish a formal analysis of these narrative structures. Who tells what, in which circumstances, by what voice. It is necessary to establish a detailed structure of the communicational act to have a possibility of comparison with other European "Spectators". In the second part of the work, we will give an overview of the catalogue of themes, presented in the texts. The main question will be to ask if they are related to a genuine Spanish production, or if they are imported by the English, French or Italian patterns. In a third step we will integrate our results in a larger European context and study inter-textual phenomenon in different "Spectators". By the method of a detailed comparison of formal and semantic structures, we can follow the files of influence in the specific areas of Romance language "Spectators". In a longer run, the aim is to establish an important data bank with all the Moral Weeklies of the 18th century. There are more than 500 Spectators all over the world. For that project we would need, in the next five years, the confluence of a larger number of colleagues and research groups. A technological support would assure the establishment of a broader synoptic study of the Moral Weeklies and permit to show the generating of the "modern" discourses in the Western Countries. With the present project first, we concentrate our attention to the Spanish facts relating them more and more to the European "Spectators".

With the project we are planning a formal and thematic analysis of the Moral Weeklies in Spain, as there are El Pensador, El Censor, La Pensadora gaditana, El Corresponsal del Censor and El Duende crtico. The aim of the work is to show the strategies of fictionalization in these texts and the principal conditions of their narrative construction in the specific surrounding of local 18th century discourse. There is still no research realized in this important field. It is necessary to describe the way, in which the phenomenon of the Moral Weeklies has taken place in Spain and how this event can be observed in the texts. There is a rich game of masking and unmasking of the narrators at different levels creating a whole system of communication with a great number of narrative microstructures, which are tightly connected with the social discourses, especially with the literary system of Spain. First we will establish a formal analysis of these narrative structures. Who tells what, in which circumstances, by what voice. It is necessary to establish a detailed structure of the communicational act to have a possibility of comparison with other European "Spectators". In the second part of the work, we will give an overview of the catalogue of themes, presented in the texts. The main question will be to ask if they are related to a genuine Spanish production, or if they are imported by the English, French or Italian patterns. In a third step we will integrate our results in a larger European context and study inter-textual phenomenon in different "Spectators". By the method of a detailed comparison of formal and semantic structures, we can follow the files of influence in the specific areas of Romance language "Spectators". In a longer run, the aim is to establish an important data bank with all the Moral Weeklies of the 18th century. There are more than 500 Spectators all over the world. For that project we would need, in the next five years, the confluence of a larger number of colleagues and research groups. A technological support would assure the establishment of a broader synoptic study of the Moral Weeklies and permit to show the generating of the "modern" discourses in the Western Countries. With the present project first, we concentrate our attention to the Spanish facts relating them more and more to the European "Spectators".