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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... particular terms is likely to move, as well as expanding the disciplinary boundaries within which some of these terms have been traditionally contained. This will involve some re-situation of terms within the larger field of cultural ...
... particular (genre: the 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 ...
... particular genre into a more general type ofliterary production. Frye is also interested in the meaning of romance (what Fredric Jameson calls the semantic, rather than the syntactic, register [1975: 156]) as a mythos or archetype, a ...
... of individual romances. In more general terms, Jameson recalls for us the importance of envisioning the history of romance as a reflection of particular ideological contexts: A history of romance as a mode becomes possible, in INTRODUCTION.
... particular time and place, as well as with charting how romance is updated to fit the changing “codes” of its culture. Although Jameson never makes it explicit, Erye's notion of the “kidnapped romance” animates his investigation; what ...
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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 |