P. Van Nuffel

Les rêves de Charlemagne dans La Chanson de Roland : un fantasme d’honneur blessé qui programme le récit, mais auquel Olivier demeure étranger

Abstract A structural study of the «Chanson» allows us to identify a system of values that Roland obeys: he acts according to two positive values, honour and death. And the narrative course of the hero is that if he’s deprived of the first, he must confront the second. An analysis of the text, read in intertextual re...