RomanceRoutledge, 9 sep 2004 - 158 pagina's Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural theory, such as:
The case for 'romance' as a concept is presented clearly and imaginatively, arguing that its usefulness to contemporary critics can be maintained if it is regarded as a literary strategy rather than a fixed genre. In encouraging the reader to consider the fluidity of literature, Romance will be of equal value to all students of historical and comparative literatures and of modern literary forms. |
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... Doody, The True Story ofthe Novel, 15 Romance is a notoriously slippery category. Critics disagree about Whether it is a genre or a mode, about its origins and history, even about What it encompasses. Yet, paradoxically, readers are ...
... Doody reminds us, however, despite this accessibility or perhaps precisely because of it romance has often been singled out for censure as an unworthy form ofliterature. This volume charts the multiple, protean transformations of ...
... (Doody 1996). In this schema, she argues, literary theory adopts as its gold standard the notion of progress towards ... (Doody 1996: 3). Doody is interested in tracing a longer history for the novel while avoiding progressive INTRODUCTION ...
... (Doody 1996: 15). Rather than rethinking the hierarchy or the terms of the classification, Doody discards the category of romance altogether. This seems a case of throwing the baby out with the bath-water. The applicability and ...
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2 Medieval Romance | 37 |
3 Romance in the Renaissance | 66 |
4 PostRenaissance Transformations | 99 |
FURTHER READING | 131 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 133 |
INDEX | 142 |