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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"popular romance"”.
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Popular romance and the woman reader
'Popular Romance and the Woman Reader' is divided into three parts. The first is an analysis of theories of reading, of the woman reader and of how we read popular texts. The first section discusses women readers and popular romance in a Western context, with special reference to an American study …
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"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
… for the 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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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… the assignment of sex. Through close readings of popular romance, early drama, Ovidian myth, and biblical epic, the project argues that literary figures inherited from classical antiquity can reveal racial and historical blind spots within trans studies now: until recently, the field has largely …
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Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised Romanzi Rosa
… the potentialities inherent in the blending of popular genres in selected novels from Giorgio Scerbanenco’s middle period (specifically, 1949-1963). Long characterised as popular romances (romanzi rosa), a form of literature particularly susceptible to critical disdain, these works have received …
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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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The serpent woman as a grotesque in French, English, and German medieval narrative
The student, Carola Dwyer, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-03 at 02:53.