Denis Diderot's Salons: crossing Gazes in between text and image

• Grant number: 13/10210-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: October 07, 2013
• End date: April 06, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Flávia Cristina de Souza Nascimento Falleiros
• Grantee: Flávia Cristina de Souza Nascimento Falleiros
• Host Investigator: Jean-Charles Darmon
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS), France

Abstract

This research intends to understand the genesis of literary and artistic "modernity", by reading the Salons, by polygraph French philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784). It aims to trace, in part, a kind of archeology of a literary genre - the Salon - which, though short, was very important for later developments in the field of literary creation, as demonstrated in the nineteenth century by the process of Charles Baudelaire's creating poetry. In this sense, the sight of this research is historical (history of literature). Moreover, it's an interdisciplinary research approach, which will merge diversified knowledge in the humanities, such as literary theory, rhetoric, art criticism, and particular aesthetics (philosophy of art.) In this case, the object itself - the Salons - imposes an interdisciplinary approach. (AU)