Romance literary studies

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The Roman literature is a part of science of romance languages . She deals with the literature of the Romance languages , in particular with the history of Romance literatures, text interpretation and literary theory . A total romance perspective can be adopted, which compares the literatures; or it is worked in sub-disciplines that consider individual literatures. Such sub-disciplines are Gallo or Franko-Romance studies (the term French studies is rarely used), Italian studies , Hispanic studies , theLusitanistics that Rumänistik , the Catalan Culture , the Provenzalistik and the creolistics . The study of Francophone literatures, in particular North America and Africa, can be separated from the French-Romance studies, the Hispano-American studies from the Hispanic studies and the Brazilian and Luso-African studies from the Lusitan studies .

The courtly novel

The courtly novels combine different material circles and influences into a fictional universe. These include, for example, the novels of Chrétien de Troyes such as Erec et Enide , Cligès , Le Chevalier de la charrette , Yvain ou Le Chevalier au lion , Perceval or the stories about Arthur , Tristan , Sir Gawain and the Holy Grail .

Example: Chanson de geste

The Chanson de geste (songs about heroic deeds) are also known as Matière de France and were created in the 10th to 13th centuries. Like the ancient novels or Matière de Rome (12th century) and the Matière de Bretagne (12th to 14th centuries), they are among the most successful epic genres of French literature in the Middle Ages. Around 80 texts are counted among these chansons, including the well-known Chanson de Roland . Epic research initially assumed that there was a Germanic influence on the content of the chansons. The French philologist Gaston Paris put the thesis of adopting a certain attitude on “  L'épopée française, c'est l'esprit germanique dans une forme romane.  »(German:“ The French epics are a Germanic spirit in a Romance form ”). The Italian scholar Pio Rajna even assumed that the content was of Germanic origin. Joseph Bédier represented the so-called individualism thesis, which assumed that the chanson de geste were the clerics' own creations. However, this was later discarded.

In the Spanish monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, the Nota Emilianense were found, which suggest knowledge of the Charles gesture . Ramón Menéndez Pidal presented in his monograph La 'Chanson de Roland' et la tradition épique des Francs , his thesis of "neutraditionalism", according to which the chanson de geste served as a kind of historical tradition , he gave no indication of possible Germanic influences .

Well-known Romanists (selection)

Literary journals (selection)

literature

  • Carl Zipperling: The old French fable of “Vilain mire”. Critical text with introduction and comments. Niemeyer, Halle 1912, OCLC 249849331 ( archive.org - French: Du Vilain Mire . Paris 1878. Partial print).
  • Darbord Michel: Dámaso Alonso, La primitiva épica francesa a la luz de una nota emilianense. In: Bulletin Hispanique . tape 59 , no. 1 , 1957, pp. 111-113 ( persee.fr ).
  • Ernst Robert Curtius: Collected essays on Romance philology. Francke, Bern 1960, OCLC 2852877 .
  • Erich Köhler: The old French courtly novel . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1978, ISBN 3-534-06453-4 .
  • Nils Borgmann: Matière de France or Matière des Francs? The Germanic heroic epic and the beginnings of the Chanson de Geste . Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6201-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Berron: The Chanson de geste as the result of Franconian-Romance cultural contact? In: literaturkritik.de. literaturkritik.de, accessed on September 11, 2016 (Review of Nils Borgmann: Matière de France or Matière des Francs? The Germanic heroic epic and the beginnings of the Chanson de Geste ).
  2. ↑ Origines de l'épopée française. In: Livre I Littérature héroïque et chevaleresque - Première partie Le Moyen âge - Histoire de la littérature française. obvil.paris-sorbonne.fr, accessed on September 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ Ramón Menéndez Pidal: La Chanson de Roland et la tradition épique des Francs . Picard, Paris 1960, OCLC 3013151 .