ENGB31 Lecture : ENGB31

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The romance : in quest of the marvellous. Canadian oxfor dictionary : romantic -> adjective. Inclined towards or suggestive of romance in love : a romantic woman/ a romantic eveneing/ romantic words. May be love plot, but genre of the romance does not equal love story. The romance investment in action means character is underdeveloped. The essential element of plot in romance is adventure (northrop frye, anatomy) The complete form of the romance is clearly the successful quest (frye, anatomy) Romance and the power of the imagination: in a sense, making movies is itself a quest, [ ] a quest for an alternative world, a world which is more satisfactory than the one we live in (john boorman) The genre of the romance is itself a kind of quest for the marvelous. The vernacular language of france, as opposed to.

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