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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... context of interdisciplinary studies. It is clear that the field of literary criticism and theory is a dynamic and heterogeneous one. The present need is for individual volumes on terms which combine clarity of exposition with an ...
... contexts. He reads medieval romance, for example, as a response to the “emergent class solidarity” of the feudal nobility: the knight who appears evil by virtue of his unknowability and oppositional stance is eventually revealed as a ...
... contexts. Post-structuralist theory invites us to consider romance in terms of what it performs as opposed to what it is. Thus Patricia Parker's reading of romance focuses on what it does and ana'oes within texts. One of Parker's ...
... context, romance appears instead as a detour or wandering from the teleological thrust of epic, characterized by circularity or stasis and by the seductions of eros and individual adventures. In order to understand this foundational ...
... contexts, I have given Fitzgerald's line numbering for the verse instead of the original's.) Menelaos' wanderings to the far confines of the Greek world on his roundabout route home anticipate the marvelous travels of Odysseus. Yet ...
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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 |