Vom ‘bon sauvage’ zum französischen Ritter par excellence. Die ‘Matière de Bretagne’ als Streitobjekt konkurrierender Erinnerungskulturen in Jean-Pierre Claris de Florians Mittelalternovelle Bliombéris (1784).

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  • While French Enlightenment seems philosophically dominated by a pejorative idea of the medieval past as the ‘Dark Ages’, this is only one conception among others. This article focuses on a different, a positive, representation of the Middle Ages in eighteenth-century literature, analyzing the chivalric novella Bliombéris (1784) by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. On the one hand, the eponymous hero is considered a ‘noble savage’ who develops into an ideal knight by education and successful learning – two central ideas of the Enlightenment period.While French Enlightenment seems philosophically dominated by a pejorative idea of the medieval past as the ‘Dark Ages’, this is only one conception among others. This article focuses on a different, a positive, representation of the Middle Ages in eighteenth-century literature, analyzing the chivalric novella Bliombéris (1784) by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. On the one hand, the eponymous hero is considered a ‘noble savage’ who develops into an ideal knight by education and successful learning – two central ideas of the Enlightenment period. On the other hand, the study shows how the medieval topic of the Matière de Bretagne, exclusively required by English literature for a long time, is finally regained by the French and is reintegrated into their national memory.show moreshow less

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Author: Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-139518
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen
Language:German
Parent Title (German):promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
ISSN:2510-2613
Year of Completion:2015
Volume:1
Pagenumber:229-251
Source:promptus 1 (2015), S. 229-251
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 84 Französische und verwandte Literaturen / 840 Literaturen romanischer Sprachen; Französische Literatur
Tag:Bliombéris
Release Date:2016/11/10
Collections:Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 1 / Artikel / articles
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY-SA: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen