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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... literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. In this lucid, imaginative guidebook, Barbara Fuchs: traces the myriad transformations ofromance throughout literary history examines ...
... literary studies to allude to forms conveying literary pleasure the criticthinks readers would be better offwithout. Margaret Doody, The True Story ... history, even about What it encompasses. Yet, paradoxically, readers are often able to ...
... literary history. Instead of settling on a single definition in the hope of capturing romance in its original shape ... literary strategies that can be adopted by different forms. Thus, although the chapters that follow focus on texts ...
... literary, and eventually escapes the realm oflanguage altogether, to settle on what is perhaps the most frequent ... history (and is the subject of another volume in this series). GENRE, MODE, STRATEGY In the narrow literary sense ...
Barbara Fuchs. A history of romance as a mode becomes possible, in other ... literary function ofthose older codes which have now become so many dead ... historical and ideological contexts. Post-structuralist theory invites us to consider ...
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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 |