In the early 2000s and 2010s, young adult romance, especially those tied to the supernatural, became quite popular. Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal…
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The year 1919 saw the publication of T.S. Eliot’s “Poems” as well as his seminal essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; Virginia Woolf’s second novel…
Comments closedA pivotal sequence in The Sheik (George Melford, 1921), a screen adaptation of E.M. Hull’s novel, acts as a microcosm of the film. We see…
Continue readingIn Defense of the Perverse: Reflections on <em>The Sheik</em> (George Melford, 1921)
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…
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