Notes from an Ongoing Man Last was not, to be fair, a great year for Laura Kipnis – or, from another perspective, it was an…
Comments closedCategory: Issue 5.2
Criticism and analysis within the field of popular romance studies have frequently been performed from a feminist or sociological point of view, primarily focusing on…
Comments closedAustralian universities and popular romance fiction may be moving towards their own Happily Ever After. Growing scholarly interest in romance fiction here includes presentations on…
Comments closedIn recent years, there has been a surge of academic interest in the sheikh romance, or what some call “desert romance.” The term describes a…
Comments closedMichael DeAngelis’s edited collection Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television (2014) is a timely contribution to film scholarship on the subject of…
Comments closedOver the last few years, we have witnessed the publication of masses of books on the Twilight Saga, some addressed to the general public, others…
Comments closedIn her introduction to Existentialism and Romantic Love, nascent Australian scholar and writer Skye Cleary speaks directly to the motivations behind her book. Cleary seeks…
Comments closedRomancing 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 closed[End Page 1] Maggie realized then, if she had not already, that this was not a modern man who did things according to politically correct…
Comments closed[End Page 1] In Twilight (2008), heroine Bella’s fantasy sequences repeatedly set out and revise the romance narrative of the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ fairy tale. In…
Comments closed