In her introduction to Existentialism and Romantic Love, nascent Australian scholar and writer Skye Cleary speaks directly to the motivations behind her book. Cleary seeks…
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Romancing the Bottom: Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow. When was the last time you thought about your anus? I mean, really thought…
Comments closedSexuality and the erotic play central roles within the realm of the romance novel. As evidenced by recent contemporary criticism from some media outlets, the…
Comments closedNothing, one might argue, could be further from popular romance than literary modernism. On the one hand, we have a type of writing intimately concerned…
Comments closedPublished in Routledge’s ‘Ontological Explorations’ series, it is my guess that for most readers of this journal – as for myself – Lena Gunnarsson’s book…
Comments closedBest known for its romantic melodramas and ubiquitous song-and-dance sequences, Bollywood is the largest of India’s culture industries. This prolific Hindi-language commercial film industry based…
Comments closedLisa Zunshine’s Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture rests on a fascinating assertion: that the appeal of popular…
Comments closedAs I began outlining this review of Sarah Rothschild’s The Princess Story: Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film, the cult of princess-hood…
Comments closedDana Percec’s Romance: The History of a Genre is a collection of essays by Romanian scholars, which seek to explore the ‘genre of romance’ (viii).…
Comments closedNot only do we know how it will end, but we know it will end well. Boy gets girl, or girl gets boy, and they…
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