POSTMODERN ROMANCE AND THE ILLUSION-MAKING TENDENCIES OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
POSTMODERN ROMANCE AND THE ILLUSION-MAKING TENDENCIES OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
Author(s): Eleonora Olivia Bălănescu Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: history; romance; storytelling; time
Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes a reading of romance in terms of postmodernism by establishing a connection between feminism and postmodernism’s questioning of historical and cultural representation. The aim is to reveal how history, no longer governed by the urge to find the “truth”, gives prominence to the uncertain, the extraordinary, the fantastic, which are the main ingredients of romance.
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 11/2012
- Issue No: suppl.
- Page Range: 112-123
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English