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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... (French, etc.), as contrasted with works in Latin. 3. A fictitious narrative in prose ofwhich the scene and incidents are very remote from those ofordinary life; esp. one ofthe class prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries, in which the ...
... centuries. The term is variously applied to everything from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, to Shakespeare's late plays, to seventeenth-century French classicizing fictions, to Harlequin romances. INTRODUCTION Genre, mode, strategy.
Barbara Fuchs. late plays, to seventeenth-century French classicizing fictions, to Harlequin romances. Moreover, medieval romance reaches back in time as well as projecting forward: many ofthe twelfth-century romances take their plots ...
... French or German now means simply novel, as does rornanzo in Italian. Romance in Spanish is a short ballad form (OED 4A). Conversely, when Spanish critics wish to refer to the sense of romance that l have been discussing, they call it ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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 |