Romancing the Postmodern book.

Romancing the Postmodern book. By exposing the theory of romance to the romance of theory, Diane Elam explores literature's most uncertain, least easily definable and most tenacious genre, assessing its implications for both feminism and the understanding of history.

As its title implies, Diane Elam's book is a kind of mutual illumination study that seeks a better understanding of both the romance and postmodern theory by identifying ethical and espistemological values the two hold in common

As its title implies, Diane Elam's book is a kind of mutual illumination study that seeks a better understanding of both the romance and postmodern theory by identifying ethical and espistemological values the two hold in common. For Elam, romance is the "signature" of the postmodern (2). It would seem that the success of her project will depend in large part on her ability to define romance in a relatively coherent, relatively com-pelling manner. Yet clarity and coherence of definition are not the au-thor's aims.

Romancing the Postmodern. Arguing for a parallel between postmodernism’s divided relation to modernism and romance’s difficult stance towards realism, Romancing the Postmodern, first published in 1992, not only highlights how postmodernism questions our assumptions about historical time, it also reintroduces the figure of woman to the theory of both history and literature.

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In her book, Romancing the Postmodern, Diane Elam insists on the centrality of the figure of woman; for . Post–modernity’s remembering of the past is performed through a re– engendering of the historical past as romance.

In her book, Romancing the Postmodern, Diane Elam insists on the centrality of the figure of woman; for within the postmodern romance the figure of woman is what allows the work of re–membering to be per-formed (1992, 16). Elam’s argument is a fascinating one to bring to bear on Fowles’s novel and the representation of its title character. She writes: Post–modernity’s remembering of the past is performed through a re– engendering of the historical past as romance. London & New York: Routledge, 1992.

Romancing the Postmodern announces that romance should be. .my unease about the book’s lack of, let’s say, ‘sociology’ led me to give it the subtitle as a. way of cutting it off from the other novels (172)

Romancing the Postmodern announces that romance should be considered as a postmodern. genre, and postmodernism is romance’ as she believes that the relationship between. postmodernism and romance comes from ‘the inability to stay within historical and aesthetic. have regarded romance being a fixed and unchangeable genre while she assumes that. way of cutting it off from the other novels (172). On the other hand, Freeman comes out.

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oceedings{Elam1997FeminismAT, title {Feminism and the Postmodern: Theory’s Romance}, author {Diane R. Elam}, year {1997} }. Diane R. Elam.

9HWVI/?tag prabook0b-20. Romancing the Postmodern" exposes the theory of romance to the romance of theory, outlining the implications for feminism of literature's least easily definable genre. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics of English literature and comparative literature, women's studies and cultural studies. 7987X/?tag prabook0b-20. Feminism and deconstruction.