Romance WritingWiley, 2007 M01 5 - 214 páginas Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. Faced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is commonly understood to be one of lifes most universal, a-historical and cross-cultural phenomena, Lynne Pearce has invoked the concept of the gift to calculate loves added value at different cultural/historical moments. Building upon those philosophical traditions which have argued for the powerfully transformative nature of romantic love, Pearce shows how in the history of literature lovers have utilized its spark to change not only themselves, but also their worlds, through acts of creativity and heroism. The gift of love ranges from the simple gift of a name in the seventeenth century, through notions of immortality, self-sacrifice and selfhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through to the liberating temporal and spatial dislocations of the postmodern age. The opening chapter, The Alchemy of Love, also undertakes an in-depth engagement of the changing nature, and meaning, of romantic love. Providing a judicious blend of close reading and cultural history, Romance Writing will be essential reading for undergraduate students as well as postgraduates and scholars working in the field, while also offering much of interest to the general reader. |
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... Spectacular Spectacular❜ The invisible , occluded or darkly hidden nature of romantic love is , indeed , one of its most defining characteristics . ' As an emotion that is probably best understood as a heady cocktail of psychic ...
... Spectacular Spectacular❜ The invisible , occluded or darkly hidden nature of romantic love is , indeed , one of its most defining characteristics . ' As an emotion that is probably best understood as a heady cocktail of psychic ...
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... ( spectacular ) obstacles . The resulting ( and equally spectacular ) love story is certainly what has most commonly come to be understood by the term ' romance ' . What thus emerges from this opening discussion is a manifestation of what ...
... ( spectacular ) obstacles . The resulting ( and equally spectacular ) love story is certainly what has most commonly come to be understood by the term ' romance ' . What thus emerges from this opening discussion is a manifestation of what ...
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... Spectacular Spectacular ' : a reference to Baz Luhrmann's film Moulin Rouge ( 2001 ) . Visu- ally sumptuous , this postmodern and anachronistic treatment of a love story set in 1920s Paris has , as part of its central narrative thread ...
... Spectacular Spectacular ' : a reference to Baz Luhrmann's film Moulin Rouge ( 2001 ) . Visu- ally sumptuous , this postmodern and anachronistic treatment of a love story set in 1920s Paris has , as part of its central narrative thread ...
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The Alchemy of Love | 1 |
The Gift of Companionship | 56 |
The Gift of Immortality | 83 |
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