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3 | Romance is a word of many historical meanings. Starting with the ChivalricRomance, where it meant "work written in the vernacular." |
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5 | From that, it derived the meaning of tales of drama, adventure, and larger than life characters and often magical elements and strange monsters. Hence, writers speak of Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s romances, and PlanetaryRomance, and RuritanianRomance. It is the source of the name of {{Romanticism}}. |
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7 | To this day, "romantic" is used as a contrast to "[[{{Realism}} realistic]]" from the movement. This can reflect anything from pure magic to the use of atypical, exaggerated characters for heroes and villains, clear conflicts, and definite resolutions. |
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9 | It is also used as a contrast to "classical"; in the tradition of the chivalric romance complicated plot threads and sometimes RandomEventsPlot, it, in this sense, denotes works with a wild miscellany of events, a luxuriant degree of detail and complexity (not necessarily organized), in contrast to an aesthetic of simplicity and purity. |
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11 | But nowadays, the most common meaning is that the Romance [[{{Genres}} genre]] is about people falling in love. See RomanceNovel for more and LoveTropes for many tropes typical of this definition. |
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13 | !!Indexes |
14 | [[index]] |
15 | !!!Subgenres |
16 | * ParanormalRomance |
17 | * QueerRomance |
18 | ** YaoiGenre |
19 | ** YuriGenre |
20 | * RomanticComedy |
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22 | !!!Works |
23 | * RomanceGame |
24 | * RomanceNovel |
25 | * RomanceWebcomics |
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27 | !!Examples: |
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29 | [[AC:Anime & Manga]] |
30 | * ''Manga/AConditionCalledLove'' |
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32 | [[AC:Comic Books]] |
33 | * ''ComicBook/GirlsLoveStories'' |
34 | [[/index]] |
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