Les ballades d'arany. Elements pour une histoire comparee d'un genre : la ballade savante
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Abstract EN:
The "literary" ballad, its nature, its history, have hardly hold the french comparatists attention up to now. This genre, however, owing to the various and very peculiar problems it involves, and to its amazing vitality, seems to be a highly interesting matter for the comparative research. The "literary" ballads composed by the hungarian poet janos arany, became so famouys in his country that the hungarian critics called him very early "the master of the genre". This very fact, the time (1847-1877), and the place (hungary may be defined as a cultural cress-roed in europe), bring one to think that his masterpieces might be described and analysed as a starting point for a future comparative history of the genre.
Abstract FR:
La ballade "savante", sa nature, son histoire, n'ont guere retenu jusqu'ici l'attention des comparatistes francais. Ce genre, pourtant, par les problemes multiples et bien particuliers qu'il souleve, et par la vitalite dont il fit preuve, nous parait etre du plus grand interet pour les etudes comparatives les celebres ballades "savantes" composees par le poete hongrois janos arany, connurent une telle celebrite qu'elles lui valurent d'etre appelme tres tot "le maitre du genre". Cette donnee, l'epoque (1847-1877), et le lieu (la hongrie peut se definir comme un carrefour culturel en europe), nous amenent a penser que la description et l'analyse de ces chefs-d'oeuvre pourraient servir de base a une histoire comparatiste du genre.