La Chanson de Roland comme modèle épique

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François Suard

Abstract

The Chanson de Roland exercises a manifold influence on epic medieval literature. While setting aside the obvious revisions (such as the Rolands rimés) of the Oxford manuscript—a text often and curiously passed off as the “original”—this article will analyze the different types of debt owed to the Roland tradition. A number of compilations, for example, insert the Roncevaux story into their broader narratives, as is the case for Pseudo-Turpin and Galien. A second category of tributary texts consists of those poems where the action of the Roland epic figures into the larger tale, either as continuation (Gaydon, Anséis de Cartage) or prologue (Girart de Vienne). The third and most interesting category involves those poems where Roland’s influence, while unmistakably present, is nonetheless more diffuse, which in turn gives rise to a number of fascinating transpositions (Chanson de Guillaume, Aspremont).

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