Companion to Romance
Subtitle: From Classical to Contemporary (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald (Contributor); W. R. J. Barron (Contributor); Derek Brewer (Contributor); Richard Cronin (Contributor); David Fairer (Contributor); Robert Fraser (Contributor); David Fuller (Contributor); Jerrold E. Hogle (Contributor); Kathryn Hume (Contributor); Corinne Saunders (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9781405167277
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gothic & Romance; ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM; LOVE IN LITERATURE; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In the case of ancient romance, the usual difficulties of defining and discussing the literary genre are compounded by the fact that there is no word for it in either Greek or Latin in the classical period (in Byzantine Greek, interestingly, the word for prose fiction was drama).