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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... prose tale ofa similar character. Orig. denoting a composition in the vernacular (French, etc.), as contrasted with works in Latin. 3. A fictitious narrative in prose ofwhich the scene and incidents are very remote from those ofordinary ...
... prose texts in a variety of historical settings. The most influential exponent of this sense of romance in the twentieth century was the structuralist critic Northrop Frye, who described romance as one ofthe central modes ofliterature ...
... prose fiction of antiquity and such genres as biography, travel literature, and historiography, they generally agree that there was no classification of fictional narratives as a particular genre. In analyzing classical romance, as we ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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 |