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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... Romance / Barbara Fuchs. p. cm. — (New critical idiom) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Romances—History and criticism. 2. Literature, Medieval—History and criticism. 3. European literature— Renaissance,1450—1600 ...
... Romance Odyssean wanderings The genre of“Greek romance" Romance or novel? Some recent controversies, and a larger map ofromance 2 Medieval Romance Courts, knights, and clerks Love in the time ofchivalry Romancing antiquity Chivalry and ...
... medieval legend, and belonging both in matter and form to the ages ofknighthood; also, in later use, a prose tale ofa similar character. Orig. denoting a composition in the vernacular (French, etc.), as contrasted with works in Latin. 3 ...
... romances. Moreover, medieval romance reaches back in time as well as projecting forward: many ofthe twelfth-century romances take their plots from much earlier stories, and seem as closely related to prior literatures in their subject ...
... romance self-identical over the course of time (Jameson 1975: 155—6). Jameson, as a historical materialist, is more interested in accounting for the form that romance takes in specific historical and ideological contexts. He reads medieval ...
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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 |