Sexuality and the erotic play central roles within the realm of the romance novel. As evidenced by recent contemporary criticism from some media outlets, the…
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Nothing, 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 closedWhen Susan Elizabeth Phillips began writing and publishing romance novels in the early 1980s, the American market was dominated by the blockbuster historical romances that…
Comments closed[End Page 1] In February 2012, after finishing my Magister thesis on the popular Regency romance and getting my degree,[1] I was offered the opportunity…
Comments closedDo contemporary sheikh romance novels fetishize Arabs and subject them to the unwavering, privileged glare of the Western imagination as Holden asserts? Or is there…
Comments closedChick lit is a genre that usually depicts what life is like for young women in big cities, or occasionally—for the sake of variety—on fashionable…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Introduction In this article, I investigate romantic love in American film as a site for experiencing a divine presence in the immanent…
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