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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... traditions might argue that theirs is the true or original romance, the force ofthe term comes precisely from its ... traditional language oflearning. These poems are typically concerned with aristocratic characters such as kings and ...
... tradition. Jameson notes that although Frye's approach does not limit romance to one historical moment, it tends to erase the markers of history and to make romance self-identical over the course of time (Jameson 1975: 155—6). Jameson ...
... tradition, while also highly adaptable to particular historical and ideological contexts. Post-structuralist theory invites us to consider romance in terms of what it performs as opposed to what it is. Thus Patricia Parker's reading of ...
... tradition. Margaret Doody argues that critics working in the Anglo-American academy essentially invented the distinction between novel and romance in order to imagine an English origin for what was a much older form (Doody 1996). In ...
... traditions, and accommodates romance as one of the many voices within the novel, instead of its poor cousin. This ... tradition instead of providing anything like a comprehensive history. Even so, it is important to bear in mind that ...
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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 |