Interesting self-exploration. Good to know ourselves. As for me, country music is overall an anathema. Exceptions are Johnny Cash who had a marvelous vocal quality and a song or two hear and there. The way most country singers slide up to a note or down to it makes me cringe. And don't get me started on the lyrics.
I agree with you. There is a very narrow lane of country music that I can tolerate. But if you like Johnny Cash, give Zach Bryan a listen. There are shades of that vocal/murder ballad style that pop up quite often in his discography
I think it would be pretty awesome to get that perspective that isn’t objectifying the woman, but loving her. Also I did not know Joseph Conrad or Hemingway wrote romance, or at least love stories.
Thanks for commenting. I wasn't classing these writers as romance novelists. I suppose what I was trying to describe above is a distinction between romance and the romantic. All the figures above fall into the latter category (often both on and off the page) and it doesn't necessarily need to be in connection to a boy/girl relationship when they're doing it. Think-- the image of the lone heroic boatman in Nostromo, the bull fighter in Death in the Afternoon. And both have plenty of on the nose examples of direct romantic relationships that they've crafted expertly in their stories. They're typically done from different angle than you'd typically expect from the genre however. i.e. Hills like Elephants.
I'm aware I haven't quite articulated the quality that I'm claiming I want to emulate here, but perhaps that's the point.
Ah, Romance with a capital R. Pointing more like the technical classification of Romantic music than to a particular situation. It’s a feeling, which I certainly remember from Heart of Darkness (I’ve not read the other authors you’ve mentioned. Yup.)
Interesting self-exploration. Good to know ourselves. As for me, country music is overall an anathema. Exceptions are Johnny Cash who had a marvelous vocal quality and a song or two hear and there. The way most country singers slide up to a note or down to it makes me cringe. And don't get me started on the lyrics.
I agree with you. There is a very narrow lane of country music that I can tolerate. But if you like Johnny Cash, give Zach Bryan a listen. There are shades of that vocal/murder ballad style that pop up quite often in his discography
Will do. Thanks.
I think it would be pretty awesome to get that perspective that isn’t objectifying the woman, but loving her. Also I did not know Joseph Conrad or Hemingway wrote romance, or at least love stories.
Hi Leanne,
Thanks for commenting. I wasn't classing these writers as romance novelists. I suppose what I was trying to describe above is a distinction between romance and the romantic. All the figures above fall into the latter category (often both on and off the page) and it doesn't necessarily need to be in connection to a boy/girl relationship when they're doing it. Think-- the image of the lone heroic boatman in Nostromo, the bull fighter in Death in the Afternoon. And both have plenty of on the nose examples of direct romantic relationships that they've crafted expertly in their stories. They're typically done from different angle than you'd typically expect from the genre however. i.e. Hills like Elephants.
I'm aware I haven't quite articulated the quality that I'm claiming I want to emulate here, but perhaps that's the point.
Ah, Romance with a capital R. Pointing more like the technical classification of Romantic music than to a particular situation. It’s a feeling, which I certainly remember from Heart of Darkness (I’ve not read the other authors you’ve mentioned. Yup.)