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Romances must have something to do with love and adventure.
Romance foregrounds the story itself.
The moral of the story is the story itself--there is no moral.
Individuation--bringing opposites together
Kubla Khan's dulcimer--reminiscent of a woman's shape
Kubla discovers his power through imagination--we shift our focus from the divine creator to the human creator: the creative artist
The creative artist (Beware, beware! his flashing eyes, his floating hair) is regarded as marginal by society yet is central in romance.
Museum--the place of the muses.
The Fisher King--wounded in the groin--lance.
Knights at the Round Table search for the Holy Grail: the cup at the Last Supper or the cup that held the blood of Christ at the Crucifixion.
Lance and grail (bowl)--male and female--identity, integrated unit, the alchemical uniting of opposites
Parody and Irony
In the literature of satire, irony is making fun in order to learn a lesson while parody is making fun in order to play a game.
(pg 135) King and the Corpse: Because they read a romance, they were confined to the second circle of hell as carnal lovers, ruined by romance.
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