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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Romance Genre"”.
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
This study is concerned with the Indian "romance" (qissah) genre, as it was understood from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by sorcerers, jinns, and other marvellous beings, …
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Romancing the Reader: An Analysis of Tropes in the Romance Genre
… at the endurance and steady popularity of the romance genre through literary history through the lens of three of the most used tropes: forbidden lovers, slow burn, and enemies to lovers. Through comparative literary analysis, this work examines how these tropes are used in both classic and …
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"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
… heteronormative endings typical of the popular romance genre, specifically within the works of Ann Herendeen.
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Defending the Bodice Ripper
<p>Romance novels have always occupied a strange state of limbo in the literary world. Decried by feminists, critics, and by the general populace, what could a whole genre of books have done to be so disparaged, arguably more than any other genre? Books written by women, for women, about women …
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Pain or Pleasure: The Allure of the Masochistic Young Adult Fantasy Protagonist, As Seen in Twilight and Other Texts : With a particular focus on the language of sexuality used within a select number of young adult paranormal romance texts
… more specifically within the paranormal romance genre. This MPhil critical paper thesis discusses the masochistic traits of female protagonists in the young adult paranormal romance genre and identifies a misconception of masochism as a whole, through the exploration of sexual language, …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
Although is it generally accepted that the romance genre of medieval Europe was influenced by the French troubadour poets, the poets were themselves influenced by the Arabian love poetry of Spain during the Islamic caliphate. The theme of forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love …
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Empire, nation, gender and romance : the novels of Cynthia Stockley (1872-1936) and Gertrude Page (1873-1922)
… heroic and bourgeois versions of the romance genre, and bourgeois imperialism and the representation of feminine sexuality.
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Cruel Sorority, Or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance
… Sorority, or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance" analyzes the often-overlooked anti-social figures and affects found on the margins of American Romanticism. Symptomatically registering dissatisfaction and rage at the foreclosure of democratic possibility and public life, these feminized …
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Correlations Between Parasocial Tendencies and Self-Esteem Among Romance Readers
… present study evaluated the correlations between romance readership and paralove strength, as well as paralove strength with self-esteem. With the popularization of the romance genre, previous qualitative studies have shown that readers of romance books receive mood benefits from consuming these …
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Make-believe : claiming the real in contemporary fiction cinema
… and on Richard Linklater's reworking of the romance genre for a postmodern audience in Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004).
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It must be love: an exploration of the character arc model in screenwriting practice and theory.
… led research were the character arc, and the romance genre. The study considers the development of various theories of the character arc before defining its form through methods of textual analysis, practice and critical reflection. The practice screenplay It Must be Love was developed as a …
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Fairytale Characteristics in Medieval Romances
… of the twenty-first century, Middle English romance can be a problematic genre. Its fantastic events, stock characters, repetitive structures and contrived endings seem to belong with the fairytale of the nursery rather than with the serious literature of the adult world. Stylistically, so …
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Parodies to the National Canon in Hispanic Contemporary Literature (1978--2000): Examples From Argentina, Spain, and Colombia
… the protagonist of the 19th Century foundational romance, Maria (1867) by Jorge Isaacs. By inventing Efrain's life during those years, Moreno Duran produces a parody that not only fills in an ellipsis already present in its canonical predecessor, but also re-thinks Maria in terms of ideology and …
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Erring Knights of Desire: The Romance in Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
<p>This study explores how romance opens the texts of two sixteenth-century authors. The first is the autobiography, Libro de la vida, of Spanish nun, mystic, and reformer, Santa Teresa de Jésus. Amidst the narrative of her life and her instructions on how to better live the mystical life, Teresa …
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Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing
… The second chapter examines how the historical romance genre incorporates scenes of domestic violence against women's protected space in the home and nation. The third chapter reveals how representations of domestic violence within Mexico reflect colonial anxieties about conquest and domestic …
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William Morris and Medieval Material Culture
… the popular reading of the past. Finally, in the romances of the 1890s, Morris describes a diversity of possible social geographies, ultimately articulating a vision of the romance genre itself as a popular art, equally capable of transformation over time as are the artefacts of everyday life that …
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Bessie Head : re-writing the romance : journalism, fiction (and gender)
… and had a role in the production of "True Romance" stories for Home Post, a tabloid supplement to the Sunday newspaper Golden City Post. Head was involved in the production of these romances for over a year and I provide an analysis of the "True Romance" stories published in Home Post. I …
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Gender, Genre, and “Quality” Television: The Field of Television Production in America from 1951 - 2013
… autonomy that has allocertain shows in certain genres to be engaged with by audiences much like literature that is rich in symbolism and open to multiple interpretations. This study addresses how gender has structured the field over three distinct time periods as it expanded and provided men …
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