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- 1From:Island Studies Journal (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: To date, studies of the contribution literature makes to ideas about islands have concentrated on "high" literature. This has left unexamined the largest proportion of literature featuring islands. If one of...
- 2From:Language and Speech (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in...
- 3From:German Politics and Society (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWithin the enormous body of critical writings dedicated to literary works devoted to the Shoah, the possibility of its very representation and the problems arising in the potential deformation of memory are frequent...
- 4From:Studies in Philology (Vol. 98, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
- 5From:Gender & Society (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the role of Harlequin and Mills and Boon romance novels in the lives of young, single, middle-class women readers in urban India The article focuses on the readers' interpretations of the novels...
- 6From:Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The essay examines a series of male-authored North American romance novels set in the midst of the Spanish Civil war, to argue that their common plots of cross-cultural love--between North American gentile...
- 7From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 88, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the anthropology of romance in North America, little research has been done on 1) the relationship between love and society, and 2) love narratives. Drawing from Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope (1981; Lipset 2004,...
- 8From:Southeastern College Art Conference Review (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTeen Paranormal Romance Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Atlanta, Georgia October 25, 2014-January 17, 2015 Though organized by the University of Chicago's Renaissance Society, Teen Paranormal Romance found a...
- 9From:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article provides a feminist critique of representation, analysing the way sexual and racial others are represented in the work of the Afrikaans popular romantic fiction writer Sophia Kapp. Comparing her first three...
- 10From:Sidney Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn addition to gracing the first pages of the published portion of Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621), this frontispiece would have hung in a bookseller's shop to lure prospective customers into buying...
- 11From:Folklore (Vol. 113, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Women are the principal informants in the modern oral tradition of Hispanic balladry, the romancero. This fact conditions the point of view, ideologies, and perceptions expressed in the ballads. Critics...
- 12From:Journal of Research in Gender Studies (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Culture and Imperialism Eduard Said illustrated the fact that there is no culture to be regarded only within 'national limits'. Mid 19-century Romanian culture is an exemplary proof that this post-colonial...
- 13From:Essays in Literature (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Marble Faun' has been criticized for its preoccupation with touristic details of what is picturesque and nice. On the other hand, the novel fulfills romantic ideals by idealizing a foreign...
- 14From:Romance Notes (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSI Le Bossu, avec son immortel "Si tu ne viens pas a Lagardere, Lagardere ira [t] a toi," est l'Luvre la plus celebre de Paul Feval, qui ecrivit plus de soixante-dix romans, pres de soixante-dix nouvelles, au moins une...
- 15From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This analysis gauges gender difference in time spent reading romance novels and sexuality. Respondents were 770 white American college students, including 436 females and 334 males, age 17-49. Males are...
- 16From:Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBuilding genre collections is a central concern of public library collection development efforts. Even for college and university libraries, where it is not a major focus, a solid core collection makes a welcome...
- 17From:War, Literature & The Arts (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHenry James wrote three short stories with Civil War settings: "The Story of a Year" (1865), "Poor Richard" (1867), and "A Most Extraordinary Case" (1868). (2) In "The Story of a Year," Lizzie Crowe and John Ford...
- 18From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedKIM PETTIGREW BRACKETT [*] Given the criticisms leveled against popular romantic fiction and its readership, women readers often find it necessary to employ face-saving strategies in social situations. This study...
- 19From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis multidisciplinary study examines the discursive representation of vulnerability in Debbie Macomber's bestseller, A Girl's Guide to Moving On (2016). It is conducted in the light of the psychosocial theories...
- 20From:Early American Literature (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn a posthumously published essay entitled "An American Language," Perry Miller returned to a theme that he had treated with definitive precision earlier: the "plain style." (1) Miller was obviously one of our great...