Antiromance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.

    "Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]"

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"Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]"

Etymology

From anti- + romance.

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