Companion to Romance
Subtitle: From Classical to Contemporary (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: October 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
ISBN-13: 9780631232711
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).