Een nieuw onderzoeksproject : ‘Rerouting the Ridderroman. Adaptation strategies in the poetics of the 14th-century Middle Dutch Ridderroman’ (FWO – Universiteit Gent)

Literary historians have often noted the ‘conventional’ nature of the 14th-century Middle Dutch verse romance or ridderroman. While the corpus has long been depreciated as derivative, a mixture of older romance motifs amplified into sometimes grotesque proportions: ‘epic in decay’, this view has slowly been reconsidered. The complicated intertextuality of 14th-century ridderromans is now more understood as part of a literary game of recognition and surprise between creators and recipients. However, little comparative research has been done into the exact nature of such reworking strategies and... Mehr ...