Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This study is devoted to the identification of sources of Pushkin’s original poem “There Lived a Poor Knight ...” (“The Legend”). Through revealing the “traces” of a literary source in the drafts of “The Legend,” the details of the narrative “Will Taken for Deed,” going back to a Middle French transcription of the poetic collection “The Miracles of Our Lady” by Gautier de Coinci, have been found. Perhaps, while working on “The Legend,” the poet used a motif of the Virgin Mary’s mystical names in the collection of Marian miracles by Caesar of Heisterbach. Both “The Legend” and Franz’s song in “Scenes from Knightly Times” consistently moved away from the Marian narrative. This substantiates the interpretation of both versions as an evolution in the same direction originally chosen by the poet.
Source: Vremennik Pushkinskoi Komissii
Author: Mikhail Anatolyevich Rogov
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3209562385