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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... epic to lyric. In this view, romance is “a form that simultaneously quests for and postpones a particular end, objective, or object” (Parker 1979: 4). Resolution becomes elusive, and identity fraught, in texts characterized by “the ...
... epic or romance versus novel. These become more complicated once we identify the presence of romance within its ostensible opposites. ENGLISH ONLY? Part of the problem with defining romance as I have endeavored to do above is that while ...
... epic and romance — or in order to distinguish them from their successors — as in the distinction between romance and novel. The frequent controversies over romance that involve questions of definition 10 INTRODUCTION.
... epic, lyric, to describe texts composed much later, yet for the fictional narratives of the classical world we are forced to rely on more modern terms, retrospectively applied. Discussing romance in Greek and Latin texts, that is ...
... epic and romance organize our understanding of texts from the Renaissance onwards. The opposition between epic and romance, explored most recently by David Quint, is perhaps most clearly visible in Virgil's Aeneid (29—1 9 BC) the story ...
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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 |