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Romance of Old Philadelphia [PDF]

open access: yesThe Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1919
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Riders, Chivalry, and Knighthood in Tolkien [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay is a much extended version of the paper I gave at the IMC Leeds on 5 July 2017. It examines Tolkien’s complex attitude towards the concept(s) of chivalry and knighthood.
Honegger, Thomas
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Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2012
The human body is a cultural text, and can be therefore be used to promote or resist various social norms. Jennifer Crusie, who defines herself as a writer of feminist romances, uses the bodies of her heroines to countermand several patriarchal ...
Kyra Kramer
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When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2011
Stefania Bertola is a successful Italian writer of romantic fiction who creatively blends the codes and practices of romanzo rosa, Italy’s tradition of popular romance, with narrative tropes and cultural trends set up by contemporary Anglo-American chick
Federica Balducci
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“I am always thinking first of you:” The Chamberlains in Love and War

open access: yes, 2015
Soldier. Professor. Hero. Braggart. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain has been called many things by many people. Regardless of whether one loves or despises him, Chamberlain and his role in the American Civil War never fail to evoke intense emotion.
Caswell, Bryan G.
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Evaluating the phylogenetic signal of morphosyntax. [PDF]

open access: yesPozn Stud Contemp Linguist
Sleeman R   +6 more
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Song and the Soundscape of Old French Romance

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter examines the presence of song and sound in romance, with a particular focus on the traditions of Old French romance from its incarnation in the 1170s, in the works of Chrétien de Troyes, to the earliest examples of romances interpolated with song (romans à chansons) which date from the first decades of the thirteenth century.
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