Journal articles: 'Trauma in romance novels'

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Rychter, Ewa. "Romancing the crucifixion in biblical rewritings by Phillip Pullman and Colm Tóibín." Ars Aeterna 10, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0004.

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Abstract This paper focuses on how the romance mode is used to re-narrativize the trauma of Jesus’s crucifixion in two contemporary biblical rewritings: Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010 and Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary 2012. Reflecting on the process of the composition of the Bible, these novels resort to romance in order to invite a critical reflection on different narrativizations of the traumatic event, dependent as they are on both conservative and more subversive effects of romance. As some characters rely on the strategies of traditional spiritual romance in order to alleviate their pain, others cynically resort to a dualistic vision to establish and consolidate power, and still others make use of the excess and disarticulation of romance to do justice to the absolute horror of the event, the novels draw attention both to the comforting and subversive function of Christian scripture. Adding a metafictional dimension to the narrative of crucifixion, the novels expose the way in which religious scriptures can become ideological instruments, and signal the potentially dangerous effects of the renewed significance of religion today.

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Pérez Rodríguez, Eva. "The Unlikely Heroine beyond Family Trauma: Four Women’s Fictions of the Second World War in Greece." Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá, no. 31 (December 16, 2022): 97–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i31.4299.

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My analysis of Victoria Hislop’s The Island (2005), Leah Fleming’s The Girl under the Olive Tree (2013), Sofka Zinovieff’s The House on Paradise Street (2012), and Brenda Reid’s The House of Dust and Dreams (2010) examines their treatment of the exotic setting of Greece in the specific historical context of World War II, while following the conventions of popular romance or popular women’s fiction. As a consequence of the conflict, the traditional family structure is compromised. This is particularly evident in the case of the female protagonists, heroines who refuse to fall within the traditional happyever-after ending and opt for a fulfilling career, a longfelt vocation, singlehood or simply unusual friendships of their choice. As a result, even in novels categorized as “romances”, the presence of a hero or lover is questioned and redefined. My analysis starts with Victoria Hislop’s The Island, a historical narrative of the leper colony at Spinalonga, around the time of the Second World War. For comparative purposes regarding the treatment of popular fiction elements, Brenda Reid’s The House of Dust and Dreams and Leah Fleming’s The Girl under the Olive Tree are discussed as being more generically romantic. Finally, Sofka Zinovieff’s The House on Paradise Street offers an example of a cohesive, compact combination of political confrontation and popular romance, while at the same time England appears as the counterpoint to the exoticism of Greece.

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Dash, Pratap Kumar. "The Changing Facets of American Novels of Romance: Interpreting the Creative Flux of Platonic Romance in Danielle Steel’s Safe Harbour versus Calvinist Romance in Marilynne Robinson’s Jack." Shanlax International Journal of English 10, no. 4 (September 1, 2022): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v10i4.5287.

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The paper critically focuses on the creative facets of romance in Danielle Steel’s Safe Harbour and Marilynne Robinson’s Jack. Safe Harbour virtually harbours on mutual faith between an American widow Danielle who is also a social worker and a divorcee form New Zealand named Matt, who happens to be an artist too. In the novel, the youngest daughter of Danielle performs angelic role to bring about a transformation in thoughts and beliefs leading to the union of her mother with Matt. It seems as if the romance between them is more of Platonic than anything else leading to carrying out humanitarian responsibilities. Jack is one of its unique kinds of literary writings based on the love between two young persons Jack and Della of the two well-known racesof America. With the backdrop of the controversy that juxtaposes racial problems and human attributes with the paradigm of Calvinist romance which advocates for the stability and security of a strict religious system in a world that he finds unstable and even absurd without it. It examines how the author has tactfully revealed the pre-ordained bond of love between the two characters leaving behind the so- called social and religious dogmas. There is a reference to Black Lives Matter in the novel admixed with racial trauma whereas in the thematic context, it repeatedly investigates the connection between loneliness and eternal damnation; the soul’s isolation and its torment.

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Tippner, Anja. "Postcatastrophic entanglement? Contemporary Czech writers remember the holocaust and post-war ethnic cleansing." Memory Studies 14, no. 1 (February 2021): 80–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698020976463.

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The last two decades have seen a rising interest in the Holocaust and the expulsion of ethnic Germans after World War II in Czech literature. Novels by Hana Androníková, Radka Denemarková, Magdalena Platzová, Kateřina Tučková, and Jáchym Topol share a quest for a new poetics of remembrance. Informed by contemporary discussions about Czech memory politics, these novels are characterised by spectral visions of Germans and Jews alike, a dichotomy of trauma and nostalgia, and an understanding of Czech history as postcatastrophically entangled and thus calling for multidirectional forms of remembrance. In this respect, literary memorial forms compensate for the absence of other memorial forms addressing these topics through a transnational lens. The interaction of different historical points of view is achieved by a time frame extending from the war to the present day and stressing the intercultural dynamics of Czechs, Jews, and Germans retroactively. In order to illustrate this entanglement, authors make use of popular genres, such as romance, and create texts shaped by genre fluidity, memory theory, documentary practices, and concepts of transnationality.

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Brajović, Tihomir. "Wars, traumas, and identities in the Serbian novel 1991-2021 (I)." Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Pristini 53, no. 4 (2023): 133–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrffp53-46338.

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This paper briefly introduces the general attitudes that some of the most prominent Serbian writers formulated about war and trauma, as well as national and supranational self-understanding. In the second part of the paper, on the examples of contemporary novels, the author deals with the circular-evocative paradigm as one of the magistral choices in the literary treatment of the personal and/or collective war traumas. It is based on repetitive recognition of past events and their meanings in the present situations as a kind of collectively understandable, circular identity pattern.

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Felippe, Eduardo Ferraz. "Tempo e romance contemporâneo para além do realismo traumático." Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada 24, no. 46 (April 2022): 85–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2596-304x20222446eff.

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RESUMO Esse ensaio tenciona analisar romances contemporâneos que lidam com a memória fora do referencial teórico do denominado realismo traumático. Início tratando de uma das versões mais destacáveis do trauma dentro da produção contemporânea em artes, a relação entre realismo traumático e arquivo. Depois, lido com o tema da nostalgia em dois romances: o Nostalgia de Mircea Cărtărescu e o The Return de Hisham Matar. Por fim, enfatizo a relação entre temporalidade e literatura contemporânea.

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Shalagina, Olga Vadimovna. "The distinctive genre of 9/11 literature about children." Litera, no. 2 (February 2024): 160–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2024.2.69897.

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The article explores the genre specifics of American 9/11 novels about children. The genre features of 9/11 literature include a modification of the classic educational novel. Such genre elements as the hero’s growing up process, their journey beyond ordinary life, and their return as changed individuals, still form the primary narrative focus of these works. However, the temporality and the impetus for action development are altered compared to the classic educational novel, which is typical for the subgenre of the initiation novel. The main catalyst of the plot becomes the traumatic experiences of the characters, representing either the trauma of loss or mental traumatization of a loved one. The interplay of road motive and motive of search symbolizes personal development and introduces elements of a detective quest, while romantic motives are linked to the outcome of the initiation trial and the formation of the character’s personality. To implement the tasks set, this study employs cultural-historical and comparative-typological methods with elements of structural analysis. The scientific novelty of this work consists in conducting a study of the genre features of literature about children and teenagers thematically based on the events of September 11, 2001, on a little-studied corpus of artistic material. For the first time in Russian science, the author of the article attempts to identify and summarize the characteristic genre features of this body of works. The main results of the study lie in revealing of hybridization of genres: the initiation novel is supplemented with elements of detective and romance novels. An important aspect here is the presence of motives of travel and heroism, coupled with the problem of the trauma of not-knowing, traumatic experiences of loss, and orphanhood. This article deepens scientific knowledge on the issue of the specificity of 9/11 literature, highlighting the process of transformation and enrichment of traditional genre elements in the context of historical events that have been reflected in the literary work of the representatives of contemporary culture.

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Lowe, JSA. "Danmei and/as Fanfiction: Translations, Variations, and the Digital Semiosphere." Humanities 13, no. 1 (January 23, 2024): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h13010020.

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Since the late 1990s, Chinese internet publishing has seen a surge in literary production in terms of danmei, which are webnovels that share many of the features of Anglophone fanfiction. Thanks in part to recent live-action adaptations, there has been an influx of new Western and Chinese diaspora readers of danmei. Juxtaposing these bodies of literature in English in particular enables us to examine the complexities of how danmei are newly circulating in the Anglophone world and have become available themselves for transformative work, as readers also write fanfiction based on danmei. This paper offers a comparative reading of the following three such texts, which explore trauma recovery through the arc of romance: Tianya Ke, a danmei novel by Priest; Notebook No. 6 by magdaliny, a novella-length piece of fanfiction based on Marvel characters; and orange_crushed’s Strays, a fanfiction based on the live-action drama that was, in turn, based on Tianya Ke. The space described by Lotman’s semiosphere offers an additional model in which these texts reflect on one another; furthermore, along the porous digital border between fanfiction, danmei in translation, and fan novels based on danmei, readers and writers negotiate and vex contemporary culture.

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Hapsari, Indah, and Wika Soviana Devi. "KRITIK SASTRA: KEKERASAN DALAM NOVEL 00.00 SEPASANG LUKA YANG BERAKHIR DUKA KARYA AMEYLIA FALENSIA." Matapena: Jurnal Keilmuan Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya 5, no. 2 (December 21, 2022): 218–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36815/matapena.v5i02.1998.

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Literary works have several types such as novels, prose (fiction), poetry, drama, romance, and short stories or better known as poetry. In this research, the writer will examine the novel. Novel is a work of prose fiction written in writing, containing elements of imagination and fantasy. Literary criticism is an analysis that examines elements that contain errors. In literary criticism, it is usually more focused on the author's writing in his writings. Literary criticism is a field of literary science and usually applies to the evaluation of literary works. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with library techniques. In this case, the author uses the novel 00.00 A Pair of Luka that Ends Grief by Ameylia Falensia as research data. By reading it over and over again and determining the results of the research. There is a lot of violence in the novel. Both physical and non-physical violence. We never know someone's mentality, more precisely someone has a different mentality. Victims of violence usually experience trauma and fear in their daily lives and can even do things beyond reason, the perpetrator often ends in death, namely suicide because of the pressures of life that continue to be experienced. Keywords: literary criticism, novel, violence.

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Abramov, Roman N. "Russian science fiction in the Genre of Alternative History as a Reflection of Mass Consciousness: Sociological Approaches." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, no. 4 (2023): 106–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013216250024079-9.

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In Russia, fiction in the genre of alternative history has become popular over the past ten years. Book series of this kind are actively published and have a significant readership. This genre is part of ideological and utopian landscape of the Russian mass consciousness. It helps to understand imperial historical traumas, nostalgia for the Soviet past, and a high level of anxiety about the present and future. The theoretical part of the analysis is based on the G. Rosenfeld ideas about a close connection of this genre with the experience of the present and about ontological pluralization of the past. The article also includes M. Laruelle's thesis about the ideological function of this genre and its role in ideological mobilization. The concept of E. Shatsky's utopia as a chronic escapism is an important element in the analysis of this genre in Russia. Russian science fiction in the genre of alternative history mirrors ideological and utopian unconscious, which articulates affective historical traumas of society. Alternative history novels actively experiment with genres, and it contains elements of a political detective story, adventure and spy novel, conspiracy theories, personal nostalgic memoirs about childhood and adolescence, mysticism, military action movie, romance, crypto-fiction. Many authors perceive their novels as a historical experiment, and they are concerned with problematizing the causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The modern Russian wave of science fiction in the genre of alternative history is a more painful reaction of a part of society to the deep historical faults associated with the collapse of the USSR. The source of the analysis is the materials of interviews with the authors of works in the genre of alternative history, readers' reviews on thematic online platforms and the content of the works.

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Botrán, Ana María Iglesias. "Que mi nombre no se borre de la historia: la transposición intertextual de la novela histórica la posguerra española al Cine: el caso de las trece rosas." Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura 19, no. 2 (June 30, 2009): 193–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.19.2.193-214.

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Resumen: La Guerra Civil Española supuso uno de los acontecimientos más tristes y sangrientos de la historia de España. Después, durante los años de posguerra, los perdedores sufrieron una cruel represión por parte de los fascistas. La visión de los hechos que permite la distancia en el tiempo da lugar a un tipo de literatura basada en la utilización de estos episodios traumáticos como escenarios o bases argumentativas. Los acontecimientos de la historia desde la visión del perdedor se reflejan en la novela y en el cine como una forma de evocar lo olvidado y que constituye la base de los horrores de la guerra. En este sentido, la rememoración del tema de las trece jóvenes fusiladas durante la posguerra cobra importancia desde hace unos años en España manifestándose en los diferentes formatos de tratamiento como son dos novelas sobre el mismo tema, un documental, una película y un análisis histórico riguroso del caso de las llamadas “Trece rosas”.Palabras-clave: Guerra Civil Española; perdedores; literatura de trauma.Resumo: A Guerra Civil Espanhola foi um dos acontecimentos mais tristes e mais sangrentos da história da Espanha. Mais tarde, nos anos do pós-guerra, os perdedores sofreram uma repressão cruel pelos fascistas. A distância no tempo permite uma visão dos fatos históricos que dá lugar a um tipo de literatura baseada na utilização de estes episódios traumáticos como cenários ou bases argumentativos. Os acontecimentos históricos desde a visão do perdedor se plasmam no romance e no cinema como uma forma de evocar o esquecido e constitui a base dos horrores da guerra. Neste sentido, o fato de relembrar o tema das treze jovens fuziladas durante o pós-guerra ganha importância ha alguns anos na Espanha manifestando-se nos diferentes formas de abordagem do mesmo tema como são os dois romances, um documentário, um filme e uma análise histórica rigorosa.Palavras-chave: Guerra Civil Espanhola; perdedores; literatura de trauma.

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Garciano, Shylyn G., Gloria Con-ui Cuevas, Maria Gemma Geraldizo-Pabriga, Saira Jay J. Macabodbod, Jaciah Mae B. Yu, and Ma Jezan A. Pinote. "Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction." International Journal of Literature Studies 3, no. 3 (October 26, 2023): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijts.2023.3.3.5.

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This paper was conducted to explore romance-themed novels that influence relationship satisfaction. It further described the perception of the reasons given by participants for reading romance-themed novels, the lived experiences of the participants that made them engage in reading romance-themed novels, and the impacts of reading the romance-themed novels on the relationship satisfaction of the participants. This study utilized the qualitative research method. This study's sixteen (16) participants were selected through a case study method. The researcher’s semi-structured interview guide was used in data gathering through interviews. The thematic analysis of Braun and Clarke was used to analyze the qualitative data. Codes, categories, and common themes were identified from the transcript of in-depth interviews. Ten (10) emergent themes were established from the participants’ responses that were classified under three (3) overarching themes that provided answers to the sub-problems. The emergent themes were extracted from the significant statements of the key participants. For the reasons given by participants for reading romance-themed novels, the overarching theme, Reasons of the Informants in Reading Romance-themed Novels, has five (5) emergent themes that were classified as Align Interest, Entertainment, Social Influence, Educational, and Therapeutic. For the participants' lived experiences that made them engage in reading romance-themed novels, the overarching theme, Lived Experiences in Engaging Reading Romance-themed Novels, has two (2) emergent themes classified as On-time availability and Baseline for real-world situations. For reading romance-themed novels on the relationship satisfaction of the participants, the overarching theme is the Impacts of Participants' Relationship Satisfaction; two (2) emergent themes were created, namely Establishing Strong Emotional Bonds and Enlightened Disposition. The findings and recommendations derived from the study were used to disseminate the positive impact of reading romance-themed novels on students' relationship satisfaction.

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Olivarez, Omar, Ryan Hardie, and Kate G. Blackburn. "The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels." Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37, no. 6 (August 18, 2018): 680–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927x18793976.

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What are the common linguistic features of top-rated romance novels? The open vocabulary method was performed on 703 romance novels to determine what words were commonly used in the highest rated romance novels. Results revealed that the highest rated novels contained words related to arousal, sexual/primal prowess, and sexual communication. Our research team discusses the ability for words to capture psychological underpinnings related to readers and directions for future research.

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Kim, Eun-il. "A Study on Similarities of Korean Full-length Novels and Romance Web Novels." Research of the Korean Classic 64 (February 28, 2024): 301–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.20516/classic.2024.64.301.

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This research aims to identify certain similarities in the narrative structure between Korean Full-length novels and romance web novels, with the purpose of proposing a methodology for the modern utilization and popularization of Korean full-length novels. To achieve this, the narrative elements of Korean Full-length novels and romance web novels were divided into internal and external aspects for examination of their similarities. Firstly, it was highlighted that both genres share a similarity in focusing on the theme of ‘marriage’ in the progression of events. While a significant portion of classical novels deals with ‘marriage,’ it is challenging to find cases in Korean short novels where ‘marriage’ is placed at the center, driving diverse and complex narratives. Therefore, the similarity in narrative development centered around ‘marriage’ is considered a crucial measure. Additionally, setting up an idealized character with perfection in both internal and external aspects is a commonality between the two genres. Particularly, the detailed portrayal of the character’s internal and external facets shows a high degree of similarity between the two types. The use of Jaebeol or wealthy families as a major background is another shared aspect. Although the utilization of chaebol in Korean short novels may differ from setting wealthy families in romance web novels, the commonality lies in the foregrounding of these backgrounds. Externally, the research found similarity in the use of a serialized creative approach and the appeal to a female audience as a niche consumer group. Korean short novels are characterized by their serialized nature, while romance web novels also feature ‘series’ In conclusion, Korean short novels exhibit a high degree of similarity in narrative structure, both internally and externally, with romance web novels. Consequently, it is confirmed that the narrative grammar of romance web novels can be utilized as a strategy for the modern utilization and popularization of Korean full-lngth novels.

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Diekman, Amanda B., Wendi L. Gardner, and Mary McDonald. "LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO BE CAREFUL: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior." Psychology of Women Quarterly 24, no. 2 (June 2000): 179–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2000.tb00199.x.

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According to the sexual script portrayed in romance novels, true love is demonstrated by being “swept away” in passion. To the extent that this traditional romance script influences romance readers' own sexual scripts, readers may express greater reluctance to engage in precautionary sexual health behaviors, such as using condoms. We explored the relationship between women's reading of romance novels and their attitudes toward condom use, reports of past condom use, and intention to use condoms in the future. A systematic content analysis of modern romance novels documented the extremely low incidence of portrayals of condom use in initial sexual encounters. Study 1 demonstrated that high levels of romance reading were associated with negative attitudes toward condoms and reduced intent to use condoms in the future; Study 2 showed experimentally that including safe sex elements in romance stories increased positive attitudes toward condoms and marginally increased intent to use condoms in the future.

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Nelson, Paul B. "EURIPIDES'ALCESTISAND THE APOLLONIUS ROMANCE." Classical Quarterly 66, no. 1 (February 26, 2016): 421–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838816000057.

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In 1924The Classical Quarterlypublished a note by Alexander Haggerty Krappe titled ‘Euripides’Alcmaeonand the Apollonius Romance’. Drawing attention to the obscure origins of the ancient Greek and Roman novels in general and pointing out the scholarly agreement on the role love plays in both the ancient novels and Euripidean tragedy, Krappe observed that ‘Euripides was drawn upon for whole episodes in order to enrich the plot of the [ancient] novel’. Krappe then goes on in his note to attribute the plot of Euripides' lostAlcmaeonas a source of inspiration for one of the major episodes of theHistoria Apollonii Regis Tyri(to wit, the separation and reunion of Apollonius and his daughter, Tarsia). Today, this reliance of the ancient novels on Euripides is generally recognized, but, curiously, Krappe, while identifying an episode from the lostAlcmaeon, failed to identify a clear plot-borrowing from another extant Euripidean play, theAlcestis.

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Whissell, Cynthia. "Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels." Perceptual and Motor Skills 79, no. 3_suppl (December 1994): 1567–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1994.79.3f.1567.

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Objective text analysis was performed to compare emotional tone and word usage for 10 romance and 10 adventure novels. Romance novels were more pleasant in emotional tone, they employed more widely used words, and they had more instances of repeated words. There were no significant differences between adventures and romances for word frequency and word activation. The overlap between categories of novels is noted, and the importance of differences among novels in the same category is mentioned and exemplified.

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Hansen, William. "Folktales and Romantic Novels." Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos 17, no. 17/18 (December 2, 2005): 281–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24277/classica.v17i17/18.399.

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As lendas são consideradas os romances do povo e, inversamente, os romances populares seriam as lendas dos leitores comuns. Partindo de estudos formais dos contos orais e de romances populares modernos e ampliando o campo para incluir o romance antigo, este ensaio examina precisamente a concordância e a divergência entre lenda e romance. O estudo mostra que os contos de fada e os romances populares compartilham de algumas características, bem como divergem de modo particular. Finalmente questiona se os dois estilos característicos - o tipológico e o sensato - são absolutos ou representam apenas tendências manifestadas por cada gênero.

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Malik, Elmy Selfiana. "TOKOH UTAMA WANITA DALAM NOVEL GENRE ROMAN INDONESIA (PERIODE 1970-an & 1980-an)." Seshiski: Southeast Journal of Language and Literary Studies 2, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 173–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.53922/seshiski.v2i2.26.

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The year of 1970s and 1980s was an important period in the history of the growth and development of the romance genre novel in Indonesia. During this period, many romance novels were published, especially by female authors. The romance genre is a genre that describes the love story between the main characters, male and female. The main female character in the novel is one of the important aspects in the formulation of a romance story. Therefore, this study aims to determine the characteristic of the main female characters in Indonesian romance novels in the 1970s and 1980s. The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. The result of this study is that the characteristics of the main female characters featured in romance novels in the 1980s are more varied compared to the characteristics of the main female characters in the 1970s. Even though the changes are not too significant, the results of the analysis show that there are slight changes. It can be seen in the physical depiction, profession, and also the role of the main female characters.

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PURI, JYOTI. "READING ROMANCE NOVELS IN POSTCOLONIAL INDIA." Gender & Society 11, no. 4 (August 1997): 434–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124397011004004.

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Adkins, Denice, Linda Esser, Diane Velasquez, and Heather L. Hill. "Romance novels in american public libraries." Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 32, no. 2 (April 1, 2008): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649055.2008.10766196.

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Lobo, Isabela Rodrigues. "Fios da memória: “desenlear e re-enrolar” o novelo mnemônico em "Outros cantos"." Palimpsesto - Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UERJ 23, no. 45 (May 14, 2024): 398–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2024.79807.

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Este artigo é uma leitura mnemônica do romance contemporâneo Outros cantos (2017), de Maria Valéria Rezende, a partir da analogia do bordado – a trama e a urdidura correspondem à memória e ao esquecimento. A protagonista Maria, por meio de rememorações, confronta uma imagem remota do sertão nordestino, no contexto do pós-golpe de 1964, à imagem contemporânea, que é percebida dentro de um ônibus, em 2014, durante uma viagem de retorno aos vilarejos do semiárido. Partindo destes dois contextos surgem diversos desdobramentos da memória – individual, afetiva, coletiva e cultural –, chave de leitura do romance. Para respaldar este debate serão contemplados aspectos sublinhados, especialmente, pelos estudiosos Walter Benjamin, Maurice Halbwachs, Aleida Assmann e Jan Assmann.

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Pytel, Ewelina. "O micie uroczej Italii i przystojnego Włocha w najnowszych polskich powieściach romansowych." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia Historicolitteraria 17 (October 12, 2018): 220–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20811853.17.19.

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The myth of lovely Italy and handsome Italian men in the contemporary Polish romance novelsAbstractThe article aims at explaining the phenomenon of mass interest in Italy as a setting forcontemporary Polish romance novels. In order to understand said phenomenon, the authoranalyzes three romance novels published within the last decade. The article is divided intothree parts corresponding to aspects of the analyzed phenomenon: representation of thespace of Italy, representations of the Italian men and descriptions of changes occurring infemale characters due to their stay in Italy. The analysis, conducted with the use of Barthes’concept of myth, results in detailed description of elements of Italian myth and conceptsrelated to it.Keywords: Italy, stereotype, myth, space, romance

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Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim. "Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction." International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2, no. 1 (January 26, 2021): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/ijecls.v2i1.199.

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This paper aims to explore the female readers reading experiences, views and feelings of Hausa romance novels found in most of the northern part of Nigeria. This article also examines some criticism and accusations against the readership and content of the Hausa romance genre. The study applied the Transactional Reader-Response Theory of Rosenblatt’s (1978) as guide by selecting 7 female readers within the age ranges between 22-26 years from 2 book clubs to participate in the study. The findings revealed that all the readers individually were able to reveal their varied responses, beliefs, and experiences on the value of the romance novels which challenged the assertion made by the literary critics and traditional society that the books have no relevance in their life activities which supported their arguments and personal interpretive reading stance towards the Hausa romance genre. The finding yielded four themes were emerging: (a) promoting literacy development; (b) resistance to the traditional marriage system in society; (d) enlightening females on social inequality. These findings provided empirical support for the application of the Transactional Reader-Response Theory of Rosenblatt (1978) outside classroom contexts to understand the role of African romance novels towards female social transformation.

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Rudisill, Kristen. "Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India." Journal of Popular Culture 51, no. 3 (February 27, 2018): 754–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12652.

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Bennion, John. "Austen’s Granddaughter: Louise Plummer Re(de)fines Romance." English Journal 91, no. 6 (July 1, 2002): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej2002938.

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John Bennion believes ℌyoung people need contemporary authors who maintain the tradition of the classics and who are bridges of understanding to the stories, values, and culture of the greatest writers in the western tradition.ℍ He suggests pairings of contemporary novels with British novels such as David Copperfield, Wuthering Heights, Northanger Abbey, and Emma.

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Sparks, Tabitha. "Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5, no. 1 (July 3, 2023): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/flwg9098.

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In “Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance,” Tabitha Sparks considers a large and diffuse body of mass-market fiction written by and for Victorian women. She argues that the author-focused interpretive approach that underwrites the study of the canon neglects the attraction of formula fiction, and even the robust recovery efforts of Victorian scholars have largely avoided a taxonomic reading of these novels. In an effort to uncover their objectives and appeal, Sparks reads periodical reviews and discussions of the professional woman writer to better understand the commercial – not artistic – standards assigned to the prosaic “lady’s novel.” She examines a subset of novels by Annie S. Swan, Sarah Doudney, Emily Jolly, and Adeline Sergeant to uncover a repeated subplot in which these novels’ heroines become best-selling authors. The complete elision of the content of their best-sellers reveals and confirms the sentimental novel’s self-conscious withdrawal from the literary caste wars of the day.

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Stef Craps and Gert Buelens. "Introduction: Postcolonial Trauma Novels." Studies in the Novel 40, no. 1-2 (2008): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.0.0008.

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Bowie, E. L., and S. J. Harrison. "The Romance of the Novel." Journal of Roman Studies 83 (November 1993): 159–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/300984.

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Students of the ancient world are falling for the ancient Greek and Latin novels in increasing numbers, a state of affairs of which there were few intimations a generation ago. To be sure, theSatyricaof Petronius and theMetamorphosesof Apuleius were given standing-room on the edge of the classical canon, though few scholars and fewer students made the acquaintance of the complete texts. Encounters were usually restricted to theCena TrimalchionisandCupid and Psyche, and linguistic oddities were the chief topics of polite conversation (nothing evil in this, so long as other topics are not barred). There were of course exceptions, like Eduard Fraenkel's Oxford seminar on Petronius in 1958/9, where study of language was but one of many techniques harnessed to the establishment and interpretation of the whole text. The Greek novels were still wallflowers: partly, no doubt, because they constituted only a small portion of a vast Greek prose literature written in a period generally judged decadent, whereas the Latin novels were welcome and substantial contributors to the comparatively exiguous remains of Latin prose written by Romans at their imperial acme. No explosion of interest had followed Rohde'sDer griechische Roman und seine Vorläuferof 1876, and although some important work was done on establishment and interpretation of texts and on the development of the genre, scholars active in this field were isolated from each other and their results made little impact on their colleagues. Furthermore much of that work was focused, like Rohde's, on trying to elucidate the genre's origins.

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Ye, Hanwen. "An Analysis of the Female Ghost Images in Ancient Chinese Novels on the Theme of Romantic Relationship Between Man and Ghost." Communications in Humanities Research 28, no. 1 (April 19, 2024): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230005.

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From Jin to Qing Dynasty of China, there are a large number of novels depicting human-ghost romance. In this literature, female images, femininity and gender relationship patterns reflect the patriarchal values of a specific historical period. Previous research on ancient Chinese female ghost novels often focused on their romantic story with a male human and the awakening consciousness of female, but the research on Character depiction of female ghost was very few. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between the image shaping of female ghosts and the values of contemporary Chinese ancient patriarchal society, existing in the stories of the ancient Chinese romances novels of Song, Yuan and Ming dynasty. Studies have suggested that the female ghosts in ancient Chinese "human-ghost romance" novels are essentially projections of the male author's ideals, reflecting the phallocentrism of ancient Chinese ghost fiction.

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Johnson, Naomi R. "Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels." Women's Studies in Communication 33, no. 1 (May 4, 2010): 54–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491401003669984.

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Pérez-Gil, María del Mar. "Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other”." Journal of Men’s Studies 27, no. 2 (September 23, 2018): 169–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060826518801531.

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The alpha hero embodies the hegemonic masculinity that has long dominated romance fiction. The portrayal of this male type is, however, problematized when he is an exotic foreigner, as his hyper-heterosexualized masculinity is often associated with the gender backwardness of his country. This article is concerned with popular romance novels set in Spain in the 1970s. It explores how British authors rely on gender and national clichés that construct an essentialized image of Spanish men. The primitive and instinctual masculinity attributed to them reveals these novels’ complicity with the ideology of Britain’s superiority.

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Lee, Zi-ying, and Min-Hsiu Liao. "The “Second” Bride." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 64, no. 2 (August 27, 2018): 186–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.00030.lee.

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Abstract This article contributes to the discussion of retranslation in Translation Studies through a case study on the retranslation of romance novels in Taiwan. Although retranslation has received some attention from translation researchers, most of the existing studies are based on examples of classic literature. In contrast, popular fiction like the romance novel remains relatively under-researched. In this article, paratextual analysis is applied to the publishing environment and marketing strategies for romance novels in order to explain why works of this genre – which are usually regarded as cheap and “throwaway” – are retranslated and how consumers are motivated to purchase such products. The findings suggest that the retranslation of best-selling romantic novels is a low-cost and low-risk investment for the publishers concerned. Such retranslations are promoted through three channels: via the branding of the retranslation as a “classic”; by persuading readers to believe that the retranslated version is more faithful to the original, and thus superior; and by introducing a different mode of consumption – a shift away from renting and towards the purchase of novels. It is argued that, for commercially-driven retranslations, market factors rather than the inherent features of the texts concerned provide a clearer explanation for the phenomenon of retranslation.

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Moudileno, Lydie. "The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels." Research in African Literatures 39, no. 4 (December 2008): 120–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.120.

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Sanders, Scott M. "Between Novels and Songs: Eliza Haywood’s French Romance." Studies in the Novel 54, no. 2 (June 2022): 139–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2022.0013.

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f, f. "A Study on the Dong-A Ilbo’s “Romance in History” Series to Expand Minority Readership." Center for Asia and Diaspora 14, no. 1 (February 28, 2024): 106–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2024.02.14.1.106.

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This paper is a study that reveals the literary historical significance of the planned serialization “Romance in History” of the Dong-A Ilbo and the subsequent serialization “Children’s Chosun.” In this regard, based on a series of surveys on newspaper serials, including “Romance in History,” Kang Mi-Jung tried to reveal the function of private painting during this period and link it with the development of historical literature theory. Taking the achievements and limitations of the preceding studies as a starting point for discussion, this paper attempted to reconsider the literary and historical status of the series “Romance in History.” In order to derive the practical basis, this paper analyzed the text from the background of the appearance of “Romance in History,” the actual status of the series, and the level of formal aesthetics. As a result, it was verified that “Romance in History,” which was greatly welcomed by the public, was a genealogical precedent that suggested a motif for the creation of historical novels in the newspaper series entering the prosperity of the 1930s. It was also confirmed that it was the background and test that inspired the creation of historical novels.

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Samosir, Rebekka Basa Natalia, Theresia Marini Simanjuntak, Katri Helen Lumban Batu, Kristiani Dewi Zai, and Fachri Yunanda, S.S., M.Hum.,. "Figurative languages in novel: A comparative study between Layla Majnun and Romeo and Juliet Novels." ELT (English Language Teaching Prima Journal) 2, no. 2 (June 10, 2021): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.34012/eltp.v2i2.1741.

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Abstract : Layla Majnun is one of the works of Nizami and Romeo and Juliet is one of the works of William Shakespeare. both novels are romance tradegy novels. Romance tragedy novels usually use a lot of figurative language to beautify the language. This study aims to describe some of the types of figurative language in the novel Layla Majnun, to describe some of the types of figurative language in the novel Romeo and Juliet, to describe the comparison of the types of figurative languages found in novel Layla Majnun and novel Romeo and Juliet. The data obtained for this study are qualitative data. This means, the data are not in the forms of numeric. The data were discourse, such as dialogues, descriptions, ideas or perspectives. The main data of the study are taken from the tragedy novels. The collected data are mostly in the forms of discourse and dialogues taken from the novels as the writers of the novels often apply figurative languages to express their ideas. There are several figurative languages in the discourse and dialogues obtained from the novels which could be interpreted by using Pragmatics theory to identify the meaning behind them. The results of this study indicate that there are similarities and differences in figurative languages in the two novels. The similarities between the two novels are Personification, Metaphore, Hyperbole, and Simile. The differences between the two novels are: Parable, Embodiment, Cynicism, Repetitive, and Irony. Keywords : Figurative Language, Comparative Study, Layla Majnun Novel, Romeo and Juliet Novel.

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Safitri, Nurul, and Ratna Sari Dewi. "THE ROMANCE FORMULA IN LISA KLEYPAS RAINSHADOW ROAD." PHILOLOGY Journal of English Language and Literature 1, no. 2 (August 12, 2021): 100–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.32696/pjell.v1i2.835.

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This thesis analyzes the novel entitled Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas. The purpose of this study is to describe the romance formulas that exist in popular literary novels. In analyzing this thesis, the process of searching for data and information uses library and journal methods from the internet. The theory that guides the work of this thesis is the theory of popular romance literature by John G. Cawelti. The results of the analysis show that the novel contains elements of the characters and the plot of the romance is built into a romance formula.

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Indriyanto, Kristiawan. "Interrogating Canonical World English Literature: Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms." Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS) 3, no. 1 (May 29, 2017): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijels.v3i1.572.

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This paper aims to chart how literary work of non-Western origin is incorporated into World English Literature by giving example of two Chinese Classic Novels. Among the Chinese Classic Novels, Journey to the West is the novel that achieves wider popularity among Western scholars and canonized while other Chinese Classic Novels are not as popular especially among Western academia. The different reception is related also with how both novels are circulated, translated, and adapted from Chinese into English. The emphasis of this paper is to compare the issue of circulation, translation, and adaptation between Journey to the Westand Romance of the Three Kingdoms as another Chinese Classic Novel. By comparing different issues of how both novels enter the Western World, this paper hopes to have an insight regarding how these two novels have different popularity among academic scholars.Keywords: charting World English Literature, Chinese classics novels

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Wilson, Michael T. "Wharton’s Revision of Guardian-Ward Romance Fiction in Summer." Edith Wharton Review 38, no. 1 (May 2022): 21–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.1.0021.

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Abstract This article analyzes the way that Wharton’s Summer both engages with and revises a relatively common trope of popular nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction centered on romance, the romance between a male guardian and his female ward. To do so, it also analyzes the trope in a range of those other novels, including William J. Locke’s 1905 The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (so popular that it became a play and then a motion picture), Jean Webster’s 1912 Daddy Long-Legs, and Ethel M. Kelley’s 1917 Turn About Eleanor. Each of these other novels generally obscures or indeed celebrates the uneven power dynamics and age relationships of such couplings, sometimes to quite remarkable degrees, and in ways that foreground the “romantic” elements of the romance fiction genre. In Summer, Wharton, by partially but not entirely revising them, instead recasts the conventions of a guardian-ward romance to force the logical and emotional contradictions of the hierarchies of power coercively inherent in the limited female autonomy of such wards to the surface.

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Saito, Kumiko. "From Novels to Video Games: Romantic Love and Narrative Form in Japanese Visual Novels and Romance Adventure Games." Arts 10, no. 3 (June 25, 2021): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts10030042.

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Video games are powerful narrative media that continue to evolve. Romance games in Japan, which began as text-based adventure games and are today known as bishōjo games and otome games, form a powerful textual corpus for literary and media studies. They adopt conventional literary narrative strategies and explore new narrative forms formulated by an interface with computer-generated texts and audiovisual fetishism, thereby challenging the assumptions about the modern textual values of storytelling. The article first examines differences between visual novels that feature female characters for a male audience and romance adventure games that feature male characters for a female audience. Through the comparison, the article investigates how notions of romantic love and relationship have transformed from the modern identity politics based on freedom and the autonomous self to the decentered model of mediation and interaction in the contemporary era.

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Raymundo, Sarah Jane. "In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production." Plaridel 1, no. 2 (August 1, 2004): 91–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.52518/2004.1.2-04.

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This paper assesses feminist position-taking in the realm of capitalist book production through a close reading of four novels written by Joi Barrios for the Rosas series. The paper adopts, as a heuristic tool, a particular focus on masculine domination in order to analyze the construction of masculinity. The construction of the male textual subject is regarded as a significant moment in advancing the feminist challenge to patriarchal stereotypes reproduced in mainstream romance novels. Barrios’ ‘alternative feminist’ romance novels demonstrate a symptomatic exposition of masculine domination through a defamiliarization of the domestic, an approach that is suggestive of a break with our embededness in the social world and the taken-for-granted notions about its givenness and order. However, Barrios’ reluctance towards decisive ruptures in the representations of masculinity and femininity affirms the enduring effects of the masculine and feminine habitus and the structuring structure of masculine domination.

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Davis, Nina Cox. "The Tyranny of Love in El amante liberal." Cervantes 13, no. 2 (September 1993): 105–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cervantes.13.2.105.

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El amante liberal se suele considerar una novela patentemente ejemplar, sin ambigüedad. Sin embargo, su moral proviene de una tensión entre el romance bizantino y el romance caballeresco que la informan. Mientras el argumento se estructura por la peregrinación de dos jóvenes occidentales en el Oriente y por la economía mercantil en que son objetos de trato, el protagonista se confirma al fin como caballero cristiano y la lección latente se manifiesta con la restitución representada de un orden cristiano tanto como aristocrático —el regreso a su patria y un casamiento fundado en el rechazo del interés o deseo “orientales” como motivos de amor. La trama se adelanta, sin embargo, por la representación del Otro cultural a través de metáforas sexuales y raciales exclusionarias que parecen cuestionar la definición de la “liberalidad” cristiana ejemplificada por el héroe.

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Enciso, Patricia E. "Good/Bad Girls Read Together: Pre–adolescent Girls Co–authorship of Feminine Subject Positions During a Shared Reading Event." English Education 30, no. 1 (February 1, 1998): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ee19983726.

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Discusses reading with pre–teens Francine Pascal’s “Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends,” one of a series of pre–romance novels featuring identical twin sisters. Interviews six girls using the Symbolic Representation Interview (SRI) about the good girl/bad girl dichotomy in novels and other media. Provides comments by Tom Romano and Diana Mitchell. In Response: Tom Romano, Diana Mitchell

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Matthews, Jodie. "Daughters of Cyprus: Women, Contemporary Romance Fiction, and 1974." Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 10 (May 1, 2017): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.16241.

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The article considers twenty-first-century Anglophone romance representations of women set during the events of 1974 in Cyprus. It highlights the creative and political opportunities and ethical challenges of representing the Cyprus Problem in this genre. In representing a gap between the “desires of the feminine” and the motivating forces of ethno-nationalism, the novels remap women’s experience left out of the patriarchal assertions of war. While the novels reinscribe many of the discourses that normalise women’s absences from processes of official reconciliation, they might be seen as drawing popular attention to the issues at stake when considering women and war in Cyprus.

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Pauka, Gabriela. "A bibliometric analysis regarding Brazilian studies of counterfactual novels." Babel: Revista Eletrônica de Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras 13 (December 30, 2023): e14823. http://dx.doi.org/10.69969/revistababel.v13i.14823.

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This paper studied the postmodern posture through the hybridism between History and Literature by electing the counterfactual novel as its object. The paper’s aim is to analyze the production of counterfactual literature studies in Brazil under qualitative and quantitative perspective. The hypotheses contemplated is that Brazilian counterfactual literature studies are yet incipient and due to this fact must be promoted. The chosen methodology was Bibliometrics. Researchers used the terms: “história contrafactual”, “história alternativa”, “romance histórico” and “metaficcção científica”. Since 2013, the results display an increase in number of publications. The authors have a network of publications/citations for terms “história contrafactual” and “romance histórico”. The VOSViewer software was used to develop a quantitative analysis and an author network.

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Prohászka-Rád, Boróka, and Boróka Salamon. "Old Genres in New Attire: Zsolna Ugron’s Novels." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 9, no. 1 (September 26, 2017): 147–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0011.

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Abstract In the present study we propose a look at Zsolna Ugron’s works from a generic perspective in order to analyze what conventions of genres such as the romance, the epistolary novel and the historical romance the author has revived and what are the elements that she has added or changed in order to make them appealing to the public and yield to critical analysis. We also attempt an investigation of the formation of female subjectivity as illustrated by these fundamentally feminine novels, given that all four of them operate with female protagonists, women in the process of shaping their destinies, often at crossroads where - despite all the external factors that seem to determine their fate from history to social conventions and men around them - ultimately they make their own personal choices and position themselves as responsible, active and creative subjects.

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Prindle, Tamae. "Romance in Money: The Phenomenon of Japanese Business Novels." Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 25, no. 2 (November 1991): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/489260.

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Hubbard, Rita C. "Relationship styles in popular romance novels, 1950 to 1983." Communication Quarterly 33, no. 2 (March 1985): 113–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01463378509369587.

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Barrett, Rebecca Kaye. "Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 4, no. 1 (June 2003): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.4.1.001.

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