Romance

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Romance or romantic usually refers to Romance (love), love emphasizing emotion over libido.

It may also refer to:

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Genres [edit]

  • Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
  • Romance (heroic literature), a genre of medieval and Renaissance narrative fiction
  • Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
    • Romancero, the Spanish tradition of such ballads
  • Romance (meter), a metric pattern found particularly in Spanish-language poetry
  • Romanticism, or the Romantic period/era, an artistic and intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including
    • Romantic music, the musical style used by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner and other late 18th and 19th-century composers
    • Romantic poetry, the poetic style used by Schiller, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth and other late 18th and 19th-century poets
    • Romanticism in science, a movement in science during the Romantic period
  • Romance novel, a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
  • Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
  • Romantic comedy film, a comic film centered on a romantic relationship

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Note: the following entries are arranged in an etymological tree.


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