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The Tempest as Romance and Anti-Romance
University of Toronto Quarterly, 1986By 1611, when The Tempest was probably written, Shakespeare's audiences had reason to count on certain basic returns from romantic comedy or tragicomedy. Above all, Sidney and Jonson notwithstanding, they could expect to travel widely—in place, in time, in the realm of imagination generally.
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The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1925
"Taught by art divine the sage physician eludes the urn, and chains or exiles death." The story of medicine enthralls the imagination by its infinite charm and arouses admiration for its victories in the battles against disease. Its romance is so compelling that men cannot be unmoved by its blessings, when they realize with us its splendor.
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"Taught by art divine the sage physician eludes the urn, and chains or exiles death." The story of medicine enthralls the imagination by its infinite charm and arouses admiration for its victories in the battles against disease. Its romance is so compelling that men cannot be unmoved by its blessings, when they realize with us its splendor.
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The American Romance Controversy: A Romance
Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, 2000G. R. Thompson and Eric Carl Link. Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy.
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The Mathematics Teacher, 1927
It may seem unwarranted to speak of romance in connection with a subject commonly supposed to be as dry and prosaic as mathematics. The dictionary defines a romance as a “fictitious and wonderful tale.” The tale which I am about to relate is indeed wonderful but it is not fictitious—it is true and it is the kind of truth that is stranger than fiction ...
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It may seem unwarranted to speak of romance in connection with a subject commonly supposed to be as dry and prosaic as mathematics. The dictionary defines a romance as a “fictitious and wonderful tale.” The tale which I am about to relate is indeed wonderful but it is not fictitious—it is true and it is the kind of truth that is stranger than fiction ...
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Nature Neuroscience, 2008
Drosophila courtship is a complex behavior. A new study shows that glia modulate neurotransmission to influence male preference, but the authors should have resisted the temptation to describe their results in tabloid language.
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Drosophila courtship is a complex behavior. A new study shows that glia modulate neurotransmission to influence male preference, but the authors should have resisted the temptation to describe their results in tabloid language.
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Ballads and Romances or Ballads-Romances? On the romance in Mickiewicz’s poetic cycle
Tekstualia, 2021The article discusses the problem of the romance as a genre in Adam Mickiewicz’s poetic cycle Ballady i romanse (Ballads and Romances). So far scholars have paid attention mainly to Mickiewicz’s ballads and his innovative use of this genre, treating the romance as a ballad-like genre, without its own specifi city and rather marginal in the context of ...
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Hastings Center Report, 2008
Freud called it the "romance of the family"--the fantasy that the grown-ups passing themselves off as your mother and father are impostors, and your "real" family is not only much more loving, but rich, or titled, or preferably both. What it boils down to, of course, is the thought that, however good families are, they're never quite good enough ...
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Freud called it the "romance of the family"--the fantasy that the grown-ups passing themselves off as your mother and father are impostors, and your "real" family is not only much more loving, but rich, or titled, or preferably both. What it boils down to, of course, is the thought that, however good families are, they're never quite good enough ...
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ROMANCING RESISTANCE AND RESISTING ROMANCE
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1999Ethnographic writing in sociology and anthropology emphasizes everyday strategies of resistance among disempowered individuals over their submission in relations of power. Rather than asking whether disempowered individuals resist or submit to their situation, this article examines how tales of resistance and submission get written.
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Chivalric Romance and Anti-Romance
2018FANTASY LITERATURE IS in some ways a direct descendent of medieval romance, though it picked up influences from various genres and ideologies on its way to the late twentieth century, when George R.R. Martin began writing A Song of Ice and Fire . Authors such as William Morris, Lord Dunsany, and E.R.
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