"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.
خط فهرست نويسي و خط اصلي شناسه
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.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Polity
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2007
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xiii, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
فروست
ساير اطلاعات عنواني
Cultural history of literature
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references )p. 196-207( and index
متن يادداشت
ISBN: 0745630057
یادداشتهای مربوط به عنوان و پدیدآور
متن يادداشت
Lynne Pearce
یادداشت های مربوط به نسخه اصلی
متن يادداشت
1
متن يادداشت
2
متن يادداشت
3
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
عنصر شناسه ای
، Love in literature
عنصر شناسه ای
History and criticism ، Love stories
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PN
56
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L6
P35
2007
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