Verse novella

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A verse novella is a novelistic narrative in verse form . Verse novellas are a form of verse narration, especially from the late Middle Ages , before prose became generally accepted as a narrative form. All small literary genres such as mare , bîspel , legend , example or fable are closely related .

Poor Heinrich von Hartmann von Aue (around 1190) and the anonymous story Moriz von Craûn (around 1220/30) are the earliest verse novellas in the German-speaking world . Later examples are the Meier Helmbrecht von Wernher dem Gartenaere , which was created in the third quarter of the 13th century, and the Kleinepik des Strickers or Konrad von Würzburg . A well-known collection of English verse novellas from the 14th century is Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Uberto e Philomena in the 15th century belongs to the Italian verse novellas .

According to Gero von Wilpert ( non-fiction dictionary of literature ), the verse novella developed into an independent literary genre in modern times alongside the predominant Kleinepik in prose form. It was cultivated by poets of the Rococo ( Friedrich von Hagedorn , Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ) as well as by German poets of the time. The countercurrent to realism that began in the late 19th century also used the verse novella as a form of expression ( Paul Heyse , Viktor von Scheffel , Carl Spitteler , Julius Wolff ).

See also

literature

  • Mark Chinca (Ed.): Medieval Novellistics in a European Context. Cultural studies perspectives. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-503-07963-7 ( supplements to the journal for German philology. 13).
  • Ruth P. Dawson: Self-Taming and Misogyny: Women Writing Poetry in the 18th Century. In: The Taming of the Shrew. Studies on subjugated femininity in literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Eds. Monika Jonas and Sylvia Wallinger. Innsbruck 1986.
  • Klaus Grubmüller (Ed.): Novellistics of the Middle Ages. Fairy poetry. Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-618-66230-0 ( Library of the Middle Ages. Volume 23).
  • Klaus Grubmüller: The order, the wit and the chaos. A history of European novellism in the Middle Ages: Fabliau - Märe - Novelle. Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-64029-4 .
  • Gero von Wilpert : Versnovelle. In: Subject dictionary of literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 231). 8th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-23108-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Lommatzsch : Uberto e Philomena. An Italian verse novella of the Quattrocento based on the incunabula of Wolfenbüttel (1942) and Erlangen (1495–1496) (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1964, No. 6).