Der stolze Kastilianer: Die Romanze des 18. Jahrhunderts als Transformationsmedium altspanischer soberbia
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Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek
Abstract
The ‘Spanish romance’ is form used in a Castilian epic poem, which was written in the 14th century and is known in European poetry since the 16th century. This so-called ‘heroic romance’ is characterized by honor and pride. This mixture of pride, honor and fame is focused on the great hero of the romance: the Castilian Grande Rodrigo Díaz (1030/45-1099). He fought partly on Spanish, partly on Moorish side, got from the Moors the nickname Cid (meaning Lord) and is the hero in the earliest Spanish poetry, the Cantar de mío Cid. His heroic story returns in Johann Gottfried Herder’s The Cid (1803-1804), for which Herder invented the rhymeless, four-footed troches, which in metrics are called ‘Spanish trochee’. A wonderful example of the “transformations of antiquity” is the development of this genre: The numerous romances of the German Romantics generally lack this pride, until it returns in Heinrich Heines writings, although in a completely new, German-Jewish perspective
Abstract
The ‘Spanish romance’ is form used in a Castilian epic poem, which was written in the 14th century and is known in European poetry since the 16th century. This so-called ‘heroic romance’ is characterized by honor and pride. This mixture of pride, honor and fame is focused on the great hero of the romance: the Castilian Grande Rodrigo Díaz (1030/45-1099). He fought partly on Spanish, partly on Moorish side, got from the Moors the nickname Cid (meaning Lord) and is the hero in the earliest Spanish poetry, the Cantar de mío Cid. His heroic story returns in Johann Gottfried Herder’s The Cid (1803-1804), for which Herder invented the rhymeless, four-footed troches, which in metrics are called ‘Spanish trochee’. A wonderful example of the “transformations of antiquity” is the development of this genre: The numerous romances of the German Romantics generally lack this pride, until it returns in Heinrich Heines writings, although in a completely new, German-Jewish perspective
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Danksagung V
- Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
- Einführung 1
- Introducción 13
- La configuración semántica de πολιτικὸν ζῷον y su transformación en los comentarios medievales y modernos a la Política de Aristóteles 25
- Die Inscriptiones sacrosanctæ vetustatis (1534) 57
- Kulturtransfer und Transformation durch Übersetzung 75
- Antikenrezeption im akademischen Aktstudium 99
- Requeno und Winckelmann: Aneignung, Transformation und Aktualisierung antiken Wissens im maltechnischen Diskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts 131
- Keine Antike? Überlegungen zur faschistischfranquistischen Monumentalarchitektur in Spanien 161
- Transformation as Legitimation of a “New State”: The role of Visual Media in Mass Celebrations during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1940) 195
- ,Älteste Geschichte des Westens‘ 217
- Der stolze Kastilianer: Die Romanze des 18. Jahrhunderts als Transformationsmedium altspanischer soberbia 239
- Namensregister 263
- Orts- und Länderregister 269
- Autorenverzeichnis 271
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Danksagung V
- Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
- Einführung 1
- Introducción 13
- La configuración semántica de πολιτικὸν ζῷον y su transformación en los comentarios medievales y modernos a la Política de Aristóteles 25
- Die Inscriptiones sacrosanctæ vetustatis (1534) 57
- Kulturtransfer und Transformation durch Übersetzung 75
- Antikenrezeption im akademischen Aktstudium 99
- Requeno und Winckelmann: Aneignung, Transformation und Aktualisierung antiken Wissens im maltechnischen Diskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts 131
- Keine Antike? Überlegungen zur faschistischfranquistischen Monumentalarchitektur in Spanien 161
- Transformation as Legitimation of a “New State”: The role of Visual Media in Mass Celebrations during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1940) 195
- ,Älteste Geschichte des Westens‘ 217
- Der stolze Kastilianer: Die Romanze des 18. Jahrhunderts als Transformationsmedium altspanischer soberbia 239
- Namensregister 263
- Orts- und Länderregister 269
- Autorenverzeichnis 271
