Art saga

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Art legends are literary works based on traditional legends .

Generic characteristics

Art sagas have many general features such as relative brevity or reference to reality, and art fairy tales come straight from the pen of an author. Art legends relate to legends as art fairy tales relate to folk tales . But in contrast to the art fairy tale and the legend , which often end sadly, the hero in the (non-romantic) art saga almost always emerges as a shining winner or at least not as a loser.

Classification

Art legends can essentially be divided into four groups.

The first of these groups includes stories in which one or more historical and / or legendary characters (also known as "storytellers", "protagonists" or "hero" for short) experience legendary or actually possible events within a precisely defined historical framework.

The second group includes art legends in which one or more heroes relive an already familiar legend under the motto “What really happened then”.

The third group includes all those stories in which the hero or the hero experience legendary or real possible events as a continuation of a well-known legend. Sometimes an already existing legend itself can be the continuation.

Finally, the fourth group is made up of all those art sagas that are completely fictitious and have no reference to historical or folk-legend-like traditions, but which give the appearance of such.

Mixed forms of these four groups cannot be ruled out. Instead, there is no division into legends of places, heroes and gods, which comes from the legends. In addition, with art legends it can happen that the legendary is “demystified”, so to speak, and a logical explanation is presented.

history

Since the time of German Romanticism, a distinction has been made between the "real folk tale" and the "art tale". The first “romantic art sagas” were penned by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim .