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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... modern literary forms. It is also a convincing case for a literary concept too often set to one side. Barbara Fuchs is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Passingfor Spain ...
... , and will introduce examples from the area of film and the modern media in addition to examples from a variety ofliterary texts. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The process of producing a volume on romance is SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE.
... modern terms, retrospectively applied. Discussing romance in Greek and Latin texts, that is, entails bringing to bear much later categories on earlier texts. Antiquity never theorized romance; in fact, much of the neglect that classical ...
Barbara Fuchs. our modern understanding ofliterary history. As subsequent chapters will show, central distinctions such as that between epic and romance organize our understanding of texts from the Renaissance onwards. The opposition ...
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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 |