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La Légende d'Ulenspiegel (1867), a founding novel of Belgian-French literature, is part of a Belgian public discourse on national history, with the aim of revaluing it through literature. This discourse, which has been in use since the Independence of Belgium in 1830, will only be recognized as legitimate from the 1880s onwards. In the wake of the Ricoeurian mythos, understood as the “introduction of a plot” of the past, this article shows that, through his novel, Charles De Coster works for a return of Belgium into “the great History”. He achieves this through the epic hybridization of two heroes rooted in the collective Belgian imagination : one legendary – Ulenspiegel –, the other historical – the Beggar.
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AbstractBiblical poetry experienced a revival in France in the years 1830-1840. During these same years, “prose poetry” brought about the crystallization of the “petit poème en prose” (small prose poem), as Nathalie Vincent-Munnia has shown in her work Premiers poèmes en prose. These two trends converged and gave rise to the “poème en prose biblique” (biblical prose poem). Christian Leroy in his La poésie en prose française du XVIIe siècle à nos jours has discussed the simplicity of such a style of biblical prose since Telemaque. The importance of Leroy's study stems from its focus on the “verset” as a possible “poème en prose” form both within the biblical prose poem tradition and from the vantage point of recent scolarship on the small prose poem. In this context, can one argue that the “verset” has managed to impose itself as the structure of a new type of poem ? Or is its use to be understood necessarily within the context of the “grand poème” tradition ? Could it be argued that its origins inevitably lend it an ethical connotation associated with polemical and political aims ? A quest for the “verset” is undertaken in the 1830's. In practice, the “verset” is defined, on the one hand, by parallelism in biblical pastiches, and on the other hand, by a rhythm inherited from poetical prose, in works that infuse it, however, with didactical considerations. In literary criticism, the “verset” is invoked as a category designed to highlight a new type of “small prose poem”. Labelled as a concise rhythmic structure, the “verset” would depend on the evolution of higher-level genres for its consecration.
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