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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... marvelous or to narratives with a broad popular appeal? To what extent is the resistance to romance a resistance to the imaginative force of literature, or to readerly pleasure? DEFINITIONS The definition of romance in the Oxfim ...
... marvelous elements. This is the genre from which we derive our popular sense of romance, as in the epigraph above. But this more restricted definition of romance quickly becomes problematic, as we realize that the thematic ...
... marvelous but who is himselfidentified as a human being. The hero of romance moves in a world in which the ordinary laws of nature are slightly suspended: prodigies of courage and endurance, unnatural to us, are natural to him, and ...
... 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 ofinstances, allowing ...
... marvelous travels of Odysseus. Yet Menelaos, who has managed to return home, is paradoxically full of nostalgia (from nostos, return and algos, suffering) for Troy. 50 powerful is the yearning for the past that it colors Menelaos' life ...
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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 |