ENG 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Courtly Love, Clotel, Utopia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 112
• Professor: seanspringer

Document Summary

Romance novels provide readers with ways to experience forbidden pleasures. In freudian terms, the heroine represents the superego while the hero represents the id. Forbidden"s historical details immerse the reader in the story, creating a backdrop that reinforces the ideology of love. Forbidden is part of a long tradition of african-american literary works that have challenged and rewritten black stereotypes of women and men. Much genre literature is about finding ways to enjoy forbidden pleasures. A symbol is an object that represents an abstract idea. For example, an author might include a dove in a story in order to convey the abstract idea of peace. See p. 223 (silver and gold cake, represents. Eddy and rhine"s conversation after he kissed her, a reason to talk to her), 237 (marmalade, when rhine said he was going to put it on eddy"s lips, kissing her)