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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... readers alike. In this lucid, imaginative guidebook, Barbara Fuchs: traces the myriad transformations ofromance throughout literary history examines the concept's relation to larger questions ofliterary and cultural theory asks what the ...
... the Gothic Gothic as genre Romance and Romanticism Romance and “genre literature" FURTHER READING SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 99 'I00 105 117 119 122 124 131 133 142 SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE The New Critical [diam is a series VI || CONTENTS.
... readers would be better offwithout. Margaret Doody, The True Story ofthe Novel, 15 Romance is a notoriously slippery category. Critics disagree about Whether it is a genre or a mode, about its origins and history, even about What it ...
... readers if it retains some of its historical commodiousness and is conceptualized as a set of literary strategies that can be adopted by different forms. Thus, although the chapters that follow focus on texts that have been generically ...
... reader than those older magical categories for which some adequate substitute must be invented. (jameson 1975: 142-3) ... reading of romance focuses on what it does and ana'oes within texts. One of Parker's central contributions is to ...
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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 |