14 mai 2014
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Hans-Erich Keller, « Exile and return in the Chanson de Mainet », Presses universitaires de Provence, ID : 10.4000/books.pup.4106
The present study will attempt to demonstrate the importance of the folkloristic approach to the chansons de geste based on the arche-typal theme of the hero’s displacement by illegal forces and his triumphant return after a period of learning and maturation. The methodology of my article is deliberately based on the late Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which will frequently be cited here precisely because of the fact that this anthropologist has recently been the subject of...