Romance is the genre of fantasy, political and sexual [...] the genre of desire and of rebellion
One of the nice things about the course I'm not currently doing very much work for, is that it is really tapping into something I've been thinking a lot about, namely "What is a romance?"
I'm not talking about those silly novels (that, like McDonalds are instantly filling but ultimately unsatisfying) in pink covers, but the much maligned genre of "romance". Walter Scott defines the difference between a novel and a romance thus:
Romance: "A fictitious narrative in prose or verse, the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents."
Novel: "A fictitious narrative, differing from the Romance, because the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events, and the modern state of society."
This was going to be a really long post, but I'm really tired so I'll just leave you with that.
I'm not talking about those silly novels (that, like McDonalds are instantly filling but ultimately unsatisfying) in pink covers, but the much maligned genre of "romance". Walter Scott defines the difference between a novel and a romance thus:
Romance: "A fictitious narrative in prose or verse, the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents."
Novel: "A fictitious narrative, differing from the Romance, because the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events, and the modern state of society."
This was going to be a really long post, but I'm really tired so I'll just leave you with that.