CHIVALRIC ROMANCES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD LITERATURE

This article examines the chivalric romance as a key phenomenon of Western European medieval literature and a crucial stage in the formation of the novel as a genre within the global literary tradition. It analyzes the historical and cultural preconditions for the emergence of the genre, its thematic and poetic features, as well as its system of images and values. Particular attention is paid to the transformation of chivalric motifs during the Renaissance, the Early Modern period, and in nineteenth–twenty-first-century literature. The study concludes that the chivalric romance shaped a new model of the hero, contributed to the development of psychological depth and narrative individualization, and exerted a significant influence on the rise of both the realist and the fantasy novel.本文考察骑士传奇（chivalric romance）作为西欧中世纪文学的核心现象，以及全球文学传统中小说体裁形成的关键阶段。本文剖析了该体裁诞生的历史文化前提、主题与诗学特征，及其意象体系与价值观念。研究尤为关注骑士母题在文艺复兴时期、早期现代时期以及19至21世纪文学中的流变。本研究最终指出，骑士传奇塑造了全新的英雄形象范式，推动了心理深度刻画与叙事个性化的发展，并对现实主义小说与奇幻小说的兴起均产生了深远影响。