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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... central modes ofliterature in two seminal studies, Anatomy ofCriticism (1957) and The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure 0fR0mance (1976). Frye follows Aristotle to suggest that fiction may be classified “by the hero's power of ...
... central contributions is to recognize that romance can appear within texts that are not necessarily in a romance genre or mode. Parker reads romance primarily as an undoing or complication of narrative progression in texts that range ...
... central moments in this tradition instead of providing anything like a comprehensive history. Even so, it is important to bear in mind that romance relies heavily on allusion and reflexivity, and that it is necessary to trace the ...
Barbara Fuchs. our modern understanding ofliterary history. As subsequent chapters will show, central distinctions such as that between epic and romance organize our understanding of texts from the Renaissance onwards. The opposition ...
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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 |