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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... idealizing, much like the ingredients that the Restoration dramatist William Congreve identifies above. As Doody reminds us, however, despite this accessibility or perhaps precisely because of it romance has often been singled out for ...
... idealization and wish-fulfillment: the projection of the social ideals of a ruling class onto literary heroes and heroines. Thus romance generally involves aristocratic protagonists, or ones who are miraculously revealed as such after ...
... idealization, the marvelous, narrative delay, wandering, and obscured identity, that, as Parker suggests, both pose a quest and complicate it. 1 find this the most useful notion of romance because it accounts for the greatest number ...
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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 |