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<blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 2101692" data-attributes="member: 17969"><p>Wow. This almost reads like a condemnation of the Genre. It was never quite as "Hit you over the head with liberal and feminist Ideology" when I was actually reading most of the books.</p><p></p><p>Romantic Fantasy definately goes beyond being just "chick flick". 'Romanic' comes not from simple love stories, but rather <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" target="_blank">the artistic and literary movement of the 18th century</a> Spawned by revolutions in America and France, Romanticism focuses on idealized nature, idealized morality, and the idolization of the individual. Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo were famous romanic novelists, and William Blake and Lord Byron were famous romantic poets.*</p><p></p><p>As far as modern geek culture goes, Star Trek is probably the most obvious example of </p><p>Romantic Fantasy, with the inclusion of prominent female and minority characters, enemies who were misguided as often as they were evil, and the glorification of the individual so evident in James T. Kirk.</p><p></p><p>The societies evident in romantic fantasy reflect the fundamental optimism in the romantic philosophy. Liberalism stems from both optimism regarding human nature and the tendency to escape the imposition of yesterday's laws on tomorrow's society. The talking animals and respect for trees stem from the idealization of nature. And the feminism is a result of romantic empowerment of the individual combined with the prevelence of female leading characters.</p><p></p><p>If you want to read romantic fantasy books that are definately not chick flicks, I reccomend some of the following:</p><p></p><p>the Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb</p><p>Bedlam's Bard Series, by Ellen Guon and Mercedes Lackey</p><p>Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic, by Mercedes Lackey, Dave Freer, and Eric Flint.</p><p>_______________________________________________________</p><p>*Can you tell somebody has his theatre history miderm tomorrow?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arscott, post: 2101692, member: 17969"] Wow. This almost reads like a condemnation of the Genre. It was never quite as "Hit you over the head with liberal and feminist Ideology" when I was actually reading most of the books. Romantic Fantasy definately goes beyond being just "chick flick". 'Romanic' comes not from simple love stories, but rather [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism]the artistic and literary movement of the 18th century[/URL] Spawned by revolutions in America and France, Romanticism focuses on idealized nature, idealized morality, and the idolization of the individual. Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo were famous romanic novelists, and William Blake and Lord Byron were famous romantic poets.* As far as modern geek culture goes, Star Trek is probably the most obvious example of Romantic Fantasy, with the inclusion of prominent female and minority characters, enemies who were misguided as often as they were evil, and the glorification of the individual so evident in James T. Kirk. The societies evident in romantic fantasy reflect the fundamental optimism in the romantic philosophy. Liberalism stems from both optimism regarding human nature and the tendency to escape the imposition of yesterday's laws on tomorrow's society. The talking animals and respect for trees stem from the idealization of nature. And the feminism is a result of romantic empowerment of the individual combined with the prevelence of female leading characters. If you want to read romantic fantasy books that are definately not chick flicks, I reccomend some of the following: the Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb Bedlam's Bard Series, by Ellen Guon and Mercedes Lackey Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic, by Mercedes Lackey, Dave Freer, and Eric Flint. _______________________________________________________ *Can you tell somebody has his theatre history miderm tomorrow? [/QUOTE]
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