Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights."
A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
a love affair, esp. one in which the lovers display their deep affection openly, by romantic gestures.
To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
A lyrical song for voice or lyric instrumental composition.
(LTC) A narrative poem that tells a story of adventure, love and chivalry. The typical hero is a knight on a quest: it is a symbolic journey during which moral and spiritual qualities are tested. Supernatural events and the use of a fairy land are common.
a play in which the emphasis is on love and/or adventure. Example: "Still-Love," a romance by Robert Patrick, 1m1f.
The mythos of literature concerned primarily with an idealized world. A form of prose fiction practised by Scott, Hawthorne, William Morris, etc., distinguishable from the novel.
in the Medieval context, not only romantic relationships between men and women, but the tales of the adventures of knights, as in Arthurian Romance, or any chivalric story.
A romance is any story in which the romantic involvements of the characters and the development or decline of that romance is the main focus.
(1) A song with a simple vocal line and a simple accompaniment; especially popular in late 18th/19th century France and Italy (2) a short instrumental piece with the lyrical character of a vocal romance.
an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
a story dealing with love
a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"
a book wherein the love story is the main focus of the novel, and the end of the book is emotionally satisfying
a fictional narrative in prose or verse that represents a chivalric theme or relates improbable adventures of idealised characters in some remote or enchanted setting
a love affair or emotional attachment
a love tale, the origin of which derived from the tales of knighthood in the Middle Ages
a novel about two people falling in love and defeating their problems together
a prose narrative that relates the adventures of chivalric heroes, extraordinary events and idealized exploits
a terrific tale, well told
a very good book, and there are ample hints and pointers to the larger significances of Wired's story
a work in which the plot centers around a love relationship
A popular medieval and early modern genre concerned with warfare and human love. The genre began in the twelfth century with the writings of Chrétien de Troyes concerning the Arthurian cycle of tales, including tales of Lancelot and Guinevere, King Arthur's Queen, and of Perceval and the Holy Grail. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote several important romances (notably the Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde); Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene is an allegorical romance loosely based on the Arthurian cycle.
Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love.
a term used to describe stories of an idealized existence; a tale of bliss or happiness.
A story about love. Some romance novels include suspense and adventure. Romance novels are fiction.
(fr.)/ Romanza (it.) / Romanze (ger.)- Romantic, sentimental melody. [back
Originally a ballad; in the Romantic era, a lyric instrumental work.
An extended fictional prose narrative about improbable events involving characters that are quite different from ordinary people. Knights on a quest for a magic sword and aided by characters like fairies and trolls would be examples of things found in romance fiction.
Emotionally heightened, symbolic American novels associated with the Romantic period.
Awww . . . a setting wherein the characters' main preoccupation is with love and their relationships with others. There's rarely any actual physical conflict on the scale of some of the other genres, but sometimes hateful words driven like daggers into your loved one's heart can be the most potent weapon of all. Many angst-ridden comics would fall into this genre.
The main plot concerns two people falling in love and struggling to make the relationship work. The conflict in the book centers on the love story. The climax in the book resolves the love story. A writer is welcome to as many subplots as she likes as long as the relationship conflict is the main story.
a literary genre typically involving fantastic or perilous adventures. Medieval verse romances were usually about knights and ladies, sorcerers and dragons, daring deeds, and secret love. Example: the tales of King Arthur and his knights.
Romance is a 1930 film which tells the story of a bishop sharing a cautionary tale with a young man, who is going against the wishes of his family, of the dangers of falling in love with "fallen women," by using a story of naivete from his past. It stars Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent, Florence Lake, and Henry Armetta.
The term romance (Spanish romance/romanza, Italian romanza, German Romanze, French romance, Russian романÑ) has a centuries long history. Beginning as narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th century for simple lyrical pieces not only for voice, but also for instruments alone. During the 18th and 19th centuries Russian composers developed the French variety of the romance as a sentimental category of Russian art song.
As a literary genre, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Romance (first published 1904) is a novel co-authored by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It was the second of their three collaborations.
"Romance" is a song by the band My Chemical Romance off their debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.
