ENGL-1707EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chivalric Romance, Adventure Fiction, Middle Ages
Document Summary
A mode of writing that gives the impression of recording or reflecting faithfully an actual way of life. Detailed and accurate description that created verisimilitude, the allusion of reproducing the reality outside the text by careful selection and exclusion of details so that the reader recognises the world as the way things really are. Rejects idealism, escapism, and other extravagances of romance in favour of recognising soberly the actual problems of life. Power to normalize the biases, exclusions, and assumptions of a society. Fiction that focusses on improbable, marvelous adventures in remote, enchanted exotic settings (harry. Characters are heroic, idealized, superior to the reader and their own society. Originally referred to tales of king arthur"s knights (chivalric romance) in later middle ages. Variants included the gothic, science fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, or adventure fiction. Sometimes considered in the modern period to be less serious form of writing.
