Simple form
In literary and folklore terms, a simple form is a pre-literary linguistic genre . Scientifically, one can categorize the various simple forms according to language typology and morphology . In the narrower sense, the following genera are understood under a simple form: myth , saga , legend , fairy tale , memorabilia , case , joke . The term Simple Forms goes back to André Jolles , who introduced this term to science with his book of the same name: "Where [...] under the rule of an intellectual occupation the multiplicity and diversity of being and happening condenses and shapes, where this from grasped in language in its final, indivisible units, in linguistic structures in turn meaning and meaning being and happening at the same time, we are talking about the emergence of the simple form . "
The simple form is characterized in its original form by orality and a so-called popularity as well as by a certain mental attitude . From simple forms, visualizations (in the case of the saga, the saga ) and possibly "higher" art forms can develop, such as the art fairy tale from the folk tale .
literature
- André Jolles : Simple forms. Legend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabilia, fairy tale, joke. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1930 (Research Institute for Modern Philology Leipzig: New German Department; 2) Online
- Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, York-Gothart Mix , Jean-Yves Mollier, Patricia Sorel (eds.): Les lectures du peuple en Europe et dans les Amériques du XVII e au XX e siècle. Éditions Complexe, Brussels 2003. (Collection Histoire culturelle ), ISBN 978-2870279540 .
- Dieter Messner (Hrsg.): European folk literature - Festschrift for Felix Karlinger . Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 1980 (= Raabser fairy tale series , vol. 4).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ André Jolles : Simple forms. Legend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabilia, fairy tale, joke. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1930 (Research Institute for Modern Philology Leipzig: New German Department; 2), p. 45.