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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... Narrative by Paul Cobley Parody by Simon Dentith Pastoral by Terry Gifford Realism by Pam Morris Romanticism by Aidan Day Science Fiction by Adam Roberts Sexuality by joseph Bristow Stylistics by Richard Bradford Subjectivity by Donald ...
... narrative not only reveals its bones, but shows most clearly how it appears within a variety of genres. The ... narratives with a broad popular appeal? To what extent is the resistance to romance a resistance to the imaginative force of ...
... narrative in prose ofwhich the scene and incidents are very remote from those ofordinary life; esp. one ofthe class prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries, in which the story is often overlaid with long disquisitions and digressions ...
... narrative poems that emerge in twelfth-century France and quickly make their way around Europe (as in OED II.2). These popular poems were known as romances because they were written in the vernacular, or romance, languages derived from ...
... narrative progression in texts that range from epic to lyric. In this view, romance is “a form that simultaneously quests for and postpones a particular end, objective, or object” (Parker 1979: 4). Resolution becomes elusive, and ...
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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 |