Literary Romance

Epic
Family
Religious

Quest: Victory, Identity
Exotic Setting
Good v. Evil
Supernatural Forces
Rural V. Urban

Quest: Long-lost Family, Identity
Long Ago and Far Away
Fate, Chance
Mysterious Signs
Nature v. Civilization

Quest: Salvation, Identity
Allegorical Landscape
Go(o)d v. (D)evil
Miracles, Grace
Sacred v. Worldly

Arthurian Legends
Faerie Queene, Book V
The Mists of Avalon
The Once and Future King
The Lord of the Rings
Classic Westerns
Adventure (Indiana Jones)
Science Fiction/Fantasy

Fairy/Folk Tales
Faerie Queene, Books III, IV

The Comedy of Errors
Twelfth Night
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest

Huckleberry Finn

The Princess Bride

The Divine Comedy
Everyman
Faerie Queene,
Book I
Pilgrim's Progress
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained

The Chronicles of Narnia

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Homer's Odyssey
Star Wars
Harry Potter books

 

© 2003 by Richard Regan

Some forms of Romance

"Back to the Future: The nostalgic yet progressive appeal of wizards, hobbits, and Jedi knights"
Michael Valdez Moses