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Umeå Studies in the Humanities 141Romance Revided
Postmodern Romances and the TraditionHeidi HansonEditor: Per Råberg |
Pris: SEK 180 + porto.
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This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, it seeks to demonstrate how this new orientation of the romance produces meaning in the dialogue with generic conventions and traditional works and, in doing so, both criticises and rehabilitates the genre. Postmodern romances transcend the boundaries between real and unreal, male and female, “high” and “low” litterature, and in the process they show that this might be equally characteristic of traditional romances. As a result of the fusion of postmodern and romantic literary modes, the inherent duality of the genre as such is brought to the fore at the same time as the romance is revided.
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