On the Persistence of Quest-Romance in the Romantic Genre
The Strange Case of Pamela
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375412 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Gimelli Martins, Catherine Gimelli Martin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772983 |
| OpenAlex | W2318594855 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Although taxonomic genre studies have increasingly come under attack, notion of genre as an evolutionary category capable of clarifying both social and conceptual contexts of literary productions has recently been reinvigorated. The present paper focuses on each of contexts in relation to other, exploring in general how evolution of literary forms participates in social change, and in particular, how persistence of quest-romance redefines kind of transformation which can be traced in literary as well as social norms of Romantic period. Except for omitting a consideration of factor of patronage in changes, assumptions followed here otherwise correspond to those of Lefevere: (1) the stability of poetic concept[s] as fixed source[s] of information on which generic system ... is based, mainly determine evolution of genres; and (2) these contentions can only be understood against a background of genre-study rooted in cultural relativism and which considers history as an evolving series of events (1985: 665). In case of romantic genre per se, major ground of contention has involved how much stability, rather than how much evolution, can be attributed to its poetic concepts. However, since its dominant critics agree on genre's incorporation of traditional forms such as questromance, but differ as to definition of not only original but
Art · Literature · Romance · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Geology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |